French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.

First Battle of Wissembourg

Part of the War of the First Coalition

In the First Battle of Wissembourg an Allied army commanded by Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser attacked the French Army of the Rhine under Jean Pascal Carlenc. After an ineffectual resistance, the French army abandoned its fortified line behind the Lauter River and retreated toward…