Rohr

Davout and his redoubtable III Corps should have been crushed by superior Austrian forces, but instead had won a hard-fought victory at Teugen-Hausen, allowing Napoleon the time to concentrate. Leaving Davout to occupy Archduke Charles, Napoleon concentrated most of his …

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Davout and his redoubtable III Corps should have been crushed by superior Austrian forces, but instead had won a hard-fought victory at Teugen-Hausen, allowing Napoleon the time to concentrate. Leaving Davout to occupy Archduke Charles, Napoleon concentrated most of his army near Abensberg to split the Austrian army, and on the morning of April 20th, unleashed them against the Austrian V Corps under Archduke Louis. Lannes’ provisional corps tore through the Austrian front line and pushed on toward the village of Rohr. En route, Lannes’ troops collided with Thierry’s retreating Austrian brigade, mauling it severely. Thierry’s survivors joined with Schustekh’s light troops at Rohr, but Lannes was close behind and wasted no time in launching his veteran French infantry against Rohr. As the Austrian infantry collapsed, the outnumbered Austrian cavalry launched desperate attacks to cover the infantry retreat, and were virtually destroyed. Jacquinot’s troopers set off in hot pursuit toward Rottenburg, inflicting further serious losses on the routed Austrians.

Abensberg, Germany

The Battle of Abensberg took place on 20 April 1809 between a Franco-German force under the command of Emperor Napoleon I of France and a reinforced Austrian corps led by Feldmarschall-Leutnant Archduke Louis of Austria. As the day wore on, Feldmarschall-Leutnant Johann von Hiller arrived with reinforcements to take command of the three corps that formed the Austrian left wing. The action ended in a complete Franco-German victory. The battlefield was southeast of Abensberg and included clashes at Offenstetten, Biburg-Siegenburg, Rohr in Niederbayern, and Rottenburg an der Laaber. On the same day, the French garrison of Regensburg capitulated.

Wikipedia: Battle of Abensberg

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