✦ History

Part of French Revolutionary Wars

Battle of Amberg

August 24, 1796 · Battle of Amberg

Result Austrian victory

Archduke Charles beat Jourdan's Army of Sambre-et-Meuse in the Upper Palatinate.

On the map Contemporaries

France

Coalition

France
Habsburg monarchy
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan military commander
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen military commander Wilhelm von Wartensleben military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
34,00034,000
Casualties
2,0002,000
Captured
800
Strength
40,00046,000
Casualties
400400

Units

Army of Sambre-et-Meuse
Austrian army on the Rhine (1796)