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War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.
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War of the Second Coalition
Second war on revolutionary France by European monarchies
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Battle of Wiesloch (1799)
Battle of the Coalition Wars, 1799
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Austrian general
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Wiesloch
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