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His choice to disperse his troop s across the entire contrary to Charles’ recommendations had come back to bite him. Luckily for him, Moreau, prudent as usual, did not pursue after this hard won fight and only planned his renewed offensive for the following day.

The rest of the day saw bitter fighting for the control of the village during the entire day, but at nightfall, a sizable part of the French army had established a few square kilometers perimeter around their initial landing and a new bridge was already being built.

Moreau had to make a decision rapidly: either attack or cancel the operation. He went for the first option. With the limited amount of boats, the first wave had to only be two divisions (1,500 men), led by Duhesme and Vandamme.

Of course, Hoche was not the type to select the first option. Leading himself his vanguard, he pursued Werneck as close as possible with his light troops and the entire cavalry reserve.

indeed the Lower Rhine army had been severely defeated, but it was not yet destroyed. If Kray divisions had been obliterated, Werneck still had some reserve and space to retreat towards more defensible positions. He had lost, but he could still hope to save his army.

To support them, each wing had at their disposal exceptional cavalry leaders: Ney and his hussars were able to turn multiple redoubts covering Heddesdorf while Richepanse would be delivering a series of charges that turned the Austrian left orderly retreat into a decisive rout.

It’s the weekend, we are all relaxed, time to continue the Rhine campaign of 1797.

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Discovering the 1930s drawings by the Soviet artist Sokolov depicting key figures of the French Revolution. Among them Robespierre, Saint-Just, Marat... And Hoche

@ChrisInParis Yeah I am far from being a fan. And this really makes me think of this classic by @SMBCComics

As Hoche was rushing to launch his offensive, his direct opponent Werneck’s priority was to avoid at all cost the renewal of hostilities. With less than 40K men, he did not think he could decisively defeat Hoche as Latour’s poor dispositions were directly exposing his forces.