CASUALTY RECORD // August 21, 1796
Battle of Amberg
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 2,000 estimated
Republican France
2,000
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Amberg delivered a Habsburg victory under Archduke Charles over Jean-Baptiste Jourdan's French army of 34,000, halting a campaign that had until that point seen French advances along the Rhine. The engagement marked a turning point in the Rhine campaign of the War of the First Coalition, reversing French momentum and reasserting Habsburg operational control in the theater. French casualties stood at 2,000, against a Habsburg force of approximately 40,000.
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