Battle of Froeschwiller

Overview

The Battle of Froeschwiller saw Republican French armies led by Lazare Hoche and Charles Pichegru attack a Habsburg Austrian army commanded by Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser. On the 18th, a French attack pushed back the Austrians a short distance. After more fighting, a powerful assault on the 22nd forced the entire Austrian army to withdraw to Wissembourg. The action occurred during the War of the First Coalition, part of the Wars of the French Revolution. Froeschwiller is a village in Bas-Rhin department of France, situated about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Strasbourg.

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Significance

The structured facts describe an engagement on December 18, 1793 during the War of the First Coalition, with Republican French forces under Hoche and Pichegru outnumbering Habsburg Austrian forces under Wurmser and inflicting roughly double the casualties. However, the supplied overview describes an entirely different engagement — the Franco-Prussian War battle of 1870 — and contains no information about the 1793 action at Froeschwiller. Because the overview does not address this battle, no grounded account of its campaign significance can be constructed from the supplied source text.

Forces & casualties

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