Yaƙin Winterthur

Yaƙin Winterthur (27 Mayu 1799) wani muhimmin aiki ne tsakanin bangarorin Sojojin Danube da bangarorin sojojin Habsburg, karkashin umarnin Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze, a lokacin Yaƙin Ƙungiyar ta Biyu, wani ɓangare na Yaƙe-yaƙe na juyin juya halin Faransa . Ƙananan garin Winterthur yana da nisan 18 kilometres (11 mi) arewa maso gabashin Zürich, a Switzerland. Saboda matsayinta a mahaɗar hanyoyi bakwai, sojojin da ke riƙe da garin sun mallaki damar zuwa mafi yawan Switzerland da maki da ke ƙetare Rhine zuwa kudancin Jamus. Kodayake sojojin da ke da hannu sun kasance ƙananan, ikon Austrians na ci gaba da kai hari na sa'o'i 11 a kan layin Faransanci ya haifar da karfafa sojojin Austrian guda uku a kan tudu a arewacin Zürich, wanda ya haifar da cin nasarar Faransanci bayan 'yan kwanaki.Timothy Blanning. The French Revolutionary Wars, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 41–59.

A tsakiyar watan Mayu na shekara ta 1799, 'yan Austriya sun kwace iko da sassan Switzerland daga Faransanci yayin da sojojin da ke karkashin umurnin Hotze da Count Heinrich von Bellegarde suka fitar da su daga Grisons. Bayan kayar da Sojojin Danube 25,000 na Jean-Baptiste Jourdan a yaƙe-yaƙe na Ostrach da Stockach, babban sojojin Austriya, a ƙarƙashin umurnin Archduke Charles, sun haye Rhine a garin Schaffhausen na Switzerland kuma sun shirya don haɗuwa da sojojin Hotze da Friedrich Joseph, Count na Nauendorf, a filayen da ke kewaye da Zürich. Gunther E. Rothenberg. Napoleon's Great Adversary: Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army 1792–1914. Stroud (Gloccester): Spellmount, 2007, p. 74. For further information on the Army of the Danube's movements and orders, see Jean-Baptiste Jourdan. A Memoir of the operations of the army of the Danube under the command of General Jourdan, taken from the manuscripts of that officer. London: Debrett, 1799, pp. 140–144. For further information on its size and composition, see Army of the Danube order of battle, or Roland Kessinger, Order of Battle, Army of the Danube Archived 7 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 3 December 2009.

Sojojin Faransa na Helvetia da Sojojin Danube, yanzu a karkashin umurnin André Masséna, sun nemi hana wannan haɗuwa. Masséna ya aika Michel Ney da ƙaramin sojan doki da sojoji daga Zürich don dakatar da sojojin Hotze a Winterthur. Duk da gwagwarmaya mai tsanani, 'yan Austriya sun yi nasarar tura Faransanci daga tsaunuka na Winterthur, kodayake bangarorin biyu sun sami babban rauni. Da zarar hadin gwiwar sojojin Habsburg ya faru a farkon watan Yuni, Archduke Charles ya kai hari kan matsayin Faransa a Zürich kuma ya tilasta Faransanci su janye bayan Limmat.

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