Battle of Hohenlinden

The Battle of Hohenlinden was fought on 3 December 1800 during the French Revolutionary Wars. A French army under Jean Victor Marie Moreau won a decisive victory over an Austrian and Bavarian force led by 18-year-old Archduke John of Austria. The allies were forced into a disastrous retreat that compelled them to request an armistice, effectively ending the War of the Second Coalition. Hohenlinden is 33 km east of Munich in modern Germany.

Battle of Hohenlinden
Part of the War of the Second Coalition

Moreau at Hohenlinden (Galerie des Batailles, Palace of Versailles)
Date3 December 1800
Location
Hohenlinden, east of Munich
48°09′35″N 11°59′53″E
Result French victory
Belligerents
France Austria
Bavaria
Commanders and leaders
Jean Moreau Archduke John
Strength
Total: 53,595
41,990 infantry
11,805 cavalry
99 guns		 Total: 60,261
46,130 infantry
14,131 cavalry
214 guns
Casualties and losses
2,500-3,000 dead or wounded
1 gun		 Total: 13,550-15,500
  •  • 11,860 Austrians
  •  • 1,868 Bavarians
4,600-5,500 dead or wounded
  •  • 4,665 Austrians
  •  • 114 Bavarians
8,950-10,000 captured
  •  • 7,195 Austrians
  •  • 1,754 Bavarians
76 guns
Location within Europe
War of the Second Coalition:
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200km
125miles
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General of Division Moreau's 56,000-strong army engaged some 64,000 Austrians and Bavarians. The Austrians, believing they were pursuing a beaten enemy, moved through heavily wooded terrain in four disconnected columns. Moreau ambushed the Austrians as they emerged from the Ebersberg forest while launching Antoine Richepanse's division in a surprise envelopment of the Austrian left flank. Displaying superb individual initiative, Moreau's generals managed to encircle and smash the largest Austrian column.

This crushing victory, coupled with the narrow French victory at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June 1800, ended the War of the Second Coalition. In February 1801, the Austrians signed the Treaty of Lunéville, accepting French control up to the Rhine and the French puppet republics in Italy and the Netherlands. The subsequent Treaty of Amiens between France and Britain began the longest break in the wars of the Napoleonic period.

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