Another Excellent and detailed work that are really worth reading…
"This was one of the very first battles of the Fifth Coalition of the French Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars, which had been going on more or less continuously since the First Coalition seventeen years earlier. And since this particular "Coalition" ended pretty much the same way for the Austrians that One through Three had (they sat out Four), you can't help but think of that psychological diagnosis of a person who does the same thing over and over again with the same lack of result: They're crazy.
But this particular battle (unlike several of the ones on my site) really is an "obscure" one. I wonder how many Napoleonic nerds have even heard of Teugn-Hausen (I know, I know, there are dozens of you--but out of 8.2 billion hominids on the planet, and out of the million plus who have visited my blog). Though, had it gone the way Archduke Charles had conceived, it could've had a significant strategic effect on the war. But, in the end (spoiler alert) it didn't. So there's no particular reason it should be anything but obscure. Which is one reason it intrigued me.
It's also a battle that some military historians have classified as one of the earliest examples of a modern battle. For one, it was an encounter battle, in which each side ran into the other unexpectedly and the fighting unfolded from there on. It was also one dominated by open-order, skirmishing combat in wooded terrain, very much like fighting in WWII or Vietnam or even Ukraine today. So in that sense it had the character of a modern battle (minus the air support…oh, and no drones).
For some reason, the battle was known to the French as Thann, though that town (over a mile south of Hausen) was not involved in the battle in any way. Maybe it was because it was easier to pronounce than Teugn (honestly, I'm not sure how to pronounce that.)…"
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