The campaign in the upper Danube valley…

October 1805 CE

The campaign in the upper Danube valley had begun in October, with several clashes in Swabia.

Mack has decided, unwisely, to defend Ulm, instead of trying to escape the approaching French army.

Mack reacts by sending Feldmarschall-Leutnant Franz Xavier Auffenberg with only six thousand men to stop the French.

Near the Bavarian town of Wertingen, forty kilometers (twenty-five miles) northwest of Augsburg, on October 8 the 1st Regiment of dragoons, part of Murat's Reserve Cavalry Corps, and grenadiers of Lannes' V Corps surprise an Austrian force half its size.

The Austrians are arrayed in a line and unable to form their defensive squares quickly enough to protect themselves from the four thousand dragoons and eight thousand grenadiers.

Murat and Lannes crush the hapless Auffenberg at the Battle of Wertingen, inflicting losses of four hundred killed and wounded on the Austrians and capturing twenty-nine hundred soldiers and six cannons.

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Wertingen Bayern Germany View →

People
Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen View → Auguste Marmont View → Ferdinand I of Austria View → Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor View → Joachim Murat View → Karl Mack von Leiberich View → Michel Ney View → Napoleon View → Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult View →

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Austria, Archduchy of View → Bavaria, Wittelsbach Duchy of View → Portugal, Bragança Kingdom of View → Russian Empire View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Baden, Electorate and Margravate of View → Austrian Empire View → France, (first) Empire of View → Bavaria, Kingdom of View →

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Napoleonic Wars View → Third Coalition, War of the View → Wertingen, Battle of View → Ulm Campaign View →

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Conflict View → Mayhem View → Government View →

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