| Battle of Mainz | |||||||
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| Part of the French Revolutionary War | |||||||
 Reconnaissance during the French siege of Mainz, 1795 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 First French Republic |
 Habsburg Austria | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| François Ignace Schaal | Count Clerfayt | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 33,000 | ca 27,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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3,000 killed or wounded, 1,800 captured, 138 cannons lost |
1,400 killed or wounded, 200 captured | ||||||
The Battle of Mainz was fought on 29 October 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars, between France and Austria. The battle was fought near the city of Mainz now in western Germany and ended in an Austrian victory.
People involved[]
- François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt
- Jean Baptiste Kléber
- Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr
- Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor
- Adam Albert von Neipperg
- Antoine Christophe Merlin
- Auguste de Marmont
- Charles XIV John of Sweden
- Franz von Weyrother
- Franz Joseph, Marquis de Lusignan
- François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat
- François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers
- Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle
- Joseph Marie, Count Dessaix
- Nicolas-Jacques Conté
- Paul Louis Courier
- Armée de Mayence
- Serbian mercenaries (see: Kočina Krajina Serb rebellion in 1791) under General Major Stephan Bernhard Keglevich did not take part, but were involved as neutral observers (see map below).[citation needed]
- Frédéric-César de La Harpe did not take part, but was involved, had a leading role in the creation of the Helvetic Republic.
Strategic situation of Europe.
Military units[]
- 54th Infantry Regiment (France) under Colonel Sauvat(?)
- Hessian (soldiers) under Colonel Johann Keglevich.[1][2] He was awarded the Military Order of Maria Theresa in 1798 "for by his own initiative undertaken and successfully a campaign significantly affecting feats of arms, which an officer of honor would may have omitted without blame".[3]
References[]
- Smith, D. The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book. Greenhill Books, 1998.
- ↑ Biographisches lexikon des kaiserthums Oesterreich: Enthaltend die lebensskizzen der denkwürdigen personen, welche seit 1750 in den österreichischen kronländern geboren wurden oder darin gelebt und gewirkt haben, Band 11, Constant von Wurzbach, K. K. Hof- und staatsdruckerie, Wien 1864.
- ↑ Geschichte des 1. Grossherzoglich hessischen Infanterie- (Leibgarde-) Regiments, Ausgabe 115 der Ausgaben 1621-1899, Carl Christian Röder von Diersburg (Freiherr.), E. S. Mittler 1899.
- ↑ Die reiter-regimenter der k.k.österreichischen armee, Andreas Thürheim (Graf.), F.B. Geitler, 1862.
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