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Second Battle of Zurich

September 25–26, 1799 · Second Battle of Zurich

Result French victory

Masséna crushed Korsakov's Russians at Zurich before Suvorov could join them from Italy.

On the map Contemporaries

France

Coalition

France

Russian Empire

Habsburg monarchy

André Masséna military commander

Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier military commander Jean Thomas Guillaume Lorge military commander

Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov military commander

Alexey Ivanovich Gorchakov military commander

Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken military commander

Strength and losses

Strength: 35,000c. 33,500
Casualties: 4,000c. 4,000

Strength: c. 23,000
Casualties: c. 8,000
Captured: c. 2,000
Guns lost: 100c. 100

Russian Empire Strength 27,116

Units

Masséna's army in Switzerland (1799)

Korsakov's corps (1799)