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    Rhine campaign of 1796 - Wikipedia

    • In the Rhine campaign of 1796 (June 1796 to February 1797), two First Coalition armies under the overall command of Archduke Charles outmaneuvered and defeated two French Republican armies. This was the last campaign of the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. The French military strategy against Austria called for a three-pronge… See more

    Background

    The rulers of Europe initially viewed the French Revolution as an internal dispute between the French king Louis XVI and his subjects. As revolutionary rhetoric grew more strident, the monarchs of Europe declared th… See more

    War plans

    At the end of the Rhine Campaign of 1795 the two sides had called a truce, but both sides continued to plan for war. In a decree on 6 January 1796, Lazare Carnot, one of the five French Directors, gave Germany priority ove… See more

    Operations

    According to plan, Kléber made the first move, advancing south from Düsseldorf against Württemberg's wing of the Army of the Lower Rhine. On 1 June 1796, a division of Kléber's troops led by François Joseph Lef… See more

    What happened in 1796?
    The initial results are dramatic. During that year the French lose all the Italian territory Won by napoleon in 1796 except for a narrow strip of coast around Genoa. Similarly the French gains in the Netherlands, along the Rhine and in the Alps are under threat. Some French victories in the autumn reverse this trend.
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