First engagement of the French offensive across the River Rhine
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TheBattle of Siegburg was the first engagement of the French offensive across theRiver Rhine - that offensive was to become the main campaign of 1796 during theWar of the First Coalition. On 30 May 1796général de divisionJean-Baptiste Kléber crossed the river atDüsseldorf with the two divisions commanded bygénéral de divisionLefebvre andgénéral de divisionColaud. He then moved onSiegburg, where he won the battle on 1 June, thus enabling generalJean-Baptiste Jourdan to bring the bulk of his force across the Rhine atNeuwied.
Accounts of the battle
[edit]- Erzherzog Carl von Österreich:Grundsätze der Strategie 2. Anton Strauss, Wien 1814 (eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche).
- Jean Baptiste Jourdan übersetzt von Johann Bachoven von Echt:Denkwürdigkeiten der Geschichte des Feldzugs von 1796. Koblenz 1823
- Leopold Bleibtreu:Kriegsbegebenheiten bei Neuwied 1792 bis 1797. Carl Georgi, Bonn 1834,urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-73887.
- Peter Heinz Krause:Belagert, erobert, geplündert. Siegburger Kriegszeiten von 1583 bis 1714. Ein militärhistorischer Überblick (= Historische Studien. Band 1). Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 1998,ISBN 3-87710-185-2, S. 63–64.
- Daniel Schneider:Die Schlacht von Altenkirchen 1796 in ihrem historischen Kontext, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreises Altenkirchen 55 (2012), S. 183–194.
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