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Title
Teugen-Hausen
Description
Believing the French armies were tied down in Spain, Archduke Charles advanced into Bavaria, intent on destroying the French army. The invasion caught Napoleon by surprise, but Charles’s advance was slow and it gave the Emperor time to react. Davout’s …
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Source
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Date
1809-04-19
Scenario#
308
Scenario Description
Believing the French armies were tied down in Spain, Archduke Charles advanced into Bavaria, intent on destroying the French army. The invasion caught Napoleon by surprise, but Charles’s advance was slow and it gave the Emperor time to react. Davout’s isolated III Corps was marching to link up with the Bavarians, and Charles planned to destroy it first by massing three of his corps against it. As events transpired, on 19 April, Saint-Hilaire’s division encountered elements of a single Austrian Corps around Hausen. Davout immediately ordered an attack on the Austrians that had taken a defensive position on a series of ridges. Although the initial assault failed, reinforcements arrived and the attack was renewed. The Austrians counter attacked the French after they had gained control of the first ridge, but the attack collapsed. More troops were fed into the fight from both sides. The French finally gained the upper hand with the arrival of Friant’s division and the French artillery. The other Austrian corps in the vicinity did not march to the sound of the guns, giving Davout the victory.
Location
Teugn, Germany
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Battle of Teugen-Hausen or the Battle of Thann was an engagement that occurred during the War of the Fifth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle was fought on 19 April 1809 between the French III Corps led by Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout and the Austrian III Armeekorps commanded by Prince Friedrich Franz Xaver of Hohenzollern-Hechingen. The French won a hard-fought victory over their opponents when the Austrians withdrew that evening. The site of the battle is a wooded height approximately halfway between the villages of Teugn and Hausen in Lower Bavaria, part of modern-day Germany.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Battle of Teugen-Hausen
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Combatants
French
Austrians
Additional Information
Fifth Coalition