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Austrian grenadiers during the French Revolutionary Wars. At the outset of war in 1793, the army numbered fifty-seven line regiments, and Seventeen Grenzer light infantry regiments. By 1793 there were 57 line infantry regiments, two garrison regiments, one garrison battalion and 17 border infantry regiments.
List of Austrian units at the Siege of Genoa [3] Units Battalions Reisky Infantry Regiment Nr. 13: 3 Klebek Infantry Regiment Nr. 14: 3 Terzy Infantry Regiment Nr. 16: 3 Stuart Infantry Regiment Nr. 18: 3 Alvinczi Infantry Regiment Nr. 19: 3 Kray Infantry Regiment Nr. 34: 3 Nádasdy Infantry Regiment Nr. 39: 3 Splényi Infantry Regiment Nr. 51: 3
At the Battle of Wagram, the Austrian army finally lost after heavy fighting and Austria was forced to sign the Peace of Schönbrunn, ending the War of the Fifth Coalition. [ 8 ] In 1812, the Austrian Empire was forced to take part in the French invasion of Russia , although its troops saw little fighting and did not participate in the main ...
Archduke John Dragoon Regiment Nr. 1: 713 Riesch Dragoon Regiment Nr. 6: 623 6-pdr Cavalry Battery: 6 guns Brigade GM Joseph Clary und Aldringen [note 6] Knesevich Dragoon Regiment Nr. 3: 644 6-pdr Cavalry Battery: 6 guns Brigade GM Peter von Vécsey: Vincent Chevau-léger Regiment Nr. 4: 746 Klenau Chevau-léger Regiment Nr. 5: 780 Brigade GM ...
The French and Allied forces included two armies: the "Grand Army of Germany", which had taken part in the previous campaign in Southern Germany and Austria (the main theater of the War of the Fifth Coalition), and the "Army of Italy", of smaller dimensions, which arrived on the battlefield in stages and only with a part of its effectives ...
On 8 and 9 August at Prutz, 920 Tyrolese led by Roman Burger routed Oberst Burscheidt's 2,000 soldiers of the 10th Bavarian Infantry and 2nd Dragoon Regiments, which belonged to Deroy's 3rd Division. The Tyrolese inflicted 200 killed and wounded on their enemies while capturing 1,200 men and two cannons. Rebel losses were only seven killed. [14]
With at least 72,000 casualties on both sides, it was also the bloodiest military engagement of the entire Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars thus far. The unusually high casualty rate was due mainly to an unprecedented concentration of artillery, on a flat battlefield, where the deadly roundshot – each army fired at least 90,000 during the ...
Epstein, Robert M. Napoleon's Last Victory and the Emergence of Modern War. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1994. Petre, F. Loraine. Napoleon and the Archduke Charles. New York: Hippocrene Books, (1909) 1976. Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill, 1998. ISBN 1-85367-276-9