Battle of Froeschwiller (1793)

The Battle of Froeschwiller (18–22 December 1793) saw Republican French armies led by Lazare Hoche and Charles Pichegru attack a Habsburg Austrian army commanded by Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser.

After more fighting, a powerful assault on the 22nd forced the entire Austrian army to withdraw to Wissembourg.

Froeschwiller is a village in Bas-Rhin department of France, situated about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Strasbourg.

Hoche sent 12,000 troops under Alexandre Camille Taponier through the Palatinate Forest to attack Wurmser's right flank at Froeschwiller.

On 22 December, Hoche launched a successful assault with five divisions while Pichegru's Army of the Rhine attacked Wurmser from the south.

Battle of Froeschwiller at 22nd December 1793: French infantry taking the town of Froeschwiller (by Frédéric Regamey, 1905)