Battle of Mainz

Reconnaissance during the French siege of Mainz, 1795

Date	29 October 1795
Location	Mainz, present-day Germany
Result	Austrian victory

Belligerents

First French Republic

Habsburg Austria

Commanders and leaders

François Ignace Schaal

Count Clerfayt

Strength

33,000

ca 27,000

Casualties and losses

3,000 killed or wounded,
1,800 captured,
138 cannons lost

1,400 killed or wounded,
200 captured

The Battle of Mainz was fought on 29 October 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars, between France and Austria. The battle was fought near the city of Mainz now in western Germany and ended in an Austrian victory.

People involved

François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt
Jean Baptiste Kléber
Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr
Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor
Adam Albert von Neipperg
Antoine Christophe Merlin
Auguste de Marmont
Charles XIV John of Sweden
Franz von Weyrother
François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat
François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers
Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle
Joseph Marie, Count Dessaix
Nicolas-Jacques Conté
Paul Louis Courier
Armée de Mayence
Serbian mercenaries (see: Kočina Krajina Serb rebellion in 1791) under General Major Stephan Bernhard Keglevich did not take part, but were involved as neutral observers (see map below).
Frédéric-César de La Harpe did not take part, but was involved, had a leading role in the creation of the Helvetic Republic.

War of the
First Coalition

Military units

54th Infantry Regiment (France) under Colonel Sauvat(?)
Hessian (soldiers) under Colonel Johann Keglevich.^[1]^[2] He was awarded the Military Order of Maria Theresa in 1798 "for by his own initiative undertaken and successfully a campaign significantly affecting feats of arms, which an officer of honor would may have omitted without blame".^[3]

References

Smith, D. The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book. Greenhill Books, 1998.

^ Biographisches lexikon des kaiserthums Oesterreich: Enthaltend die lebensskizzen der denkwürdigen personen, welche seit 1750 in den österreichischen kronländern geboren wurden oder darin gelebt und gewirkt haben, Band 11, Constant von Wurzbach, K. K. Hof- und staatsdruckerie, Wien 1864.
^ Geschichte des 1. Grossherzoglich hessischen Infanterie- (Leibgarde-) Regiments, Ausgabe 115 der Ausgaben 1621-1899, Carl Christian Röder von Diersburg (Freiherr.), E. S. Mittler 1899.
^ Die reiter-regimenter der k.k.österreichischen armee, Andreas Thürheim (Graf.), F.B. Geitler, 1862.