Battle of Handschuhsheim
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The Battle of Handschuhsheim or Battle of Heidelberg saw an 8,000-man force from Habsburg Austria under Peter Vitus von Quosdanovich face 12,000 men from the Republican French army led by Georges Jose
Battle of Handschuhsheim, aquatint by Friedrich Rottman (1795)
Peter Quosdanovich
Jean-Charles Pichegru
Battle of Höchst (1795)
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At the Battle of Höchst, the Habsburg Austrian army commanded by François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt outmaneuvered the French Republican Army of Sambre-et-Meuse commanded by
Battle of Handschuhsheim
…launch an offensive against Jourdan. Moving around Jourdan's left flank, the Austrians placed the French in a difficult spot. After a repulse at the Battle of Höchst on 11 and 12 October 1795, Jourdan's army began retreating to the north. By the 20th, the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse had recrossed to the west bank of the…
Jean Baptiste Kléber
Jean Baptiste Jourdan