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Present-day view of the Schliengen battlefield

The Battle of Schliengen took place on 24 October 1796 between the French Army of the Rhine and Moselle and the Austrian army near the village of Schliengen during the War of the First Coalition. Control of the area gave either combatant access to southwestern German states and Rhine crossings. On 20 October, the French army under Jean-Victor Moreau retreated from Freiburg im Breisgau and established his army along a ridge of hills. The Austrian army led by Archduke Charles attacked the French flanks directly, and in force, which increased casualties for both sides. The French withdrew from the battlefield in good order and several days later crossed the Rhine at Huningue. Confusion in Vienna wasted any strategic advantage that Charles might have obtained and locked the Habsburg force into two sieges on the Rhine, when the troops were badly needed in northern Italy. The battle is commemorated on a monument in Vienna and on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. (Full article...)

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