The battle was fought near Győr (Raab in German), Kingdom of Hungary, and ended in a Franco-Italian victory.

At the outbreak of war, John moved rapidly to defeat his opponent at the Battle of Sacile on 16 April.

Feldmarschallleutnant Johann Maria Philipp Frimont's 13,060-man Mobile Force lay at nearby Villach.

Feldmarschallleutnant Ignác Gyulay with 14,880 men of the IX Armeekorps defended the Laibach (now Ljubljana, Slovenia) area to the southeast of Villach.

Far to the west-northwest, Feldmarschallleutnant Johann Gabriel Chasteler de Courcelles and 17,460 soldiers of the VIII Armeekorps held the region around Innsbruck.

Finally, General-major Andreas von Stoichewich's 8,100 men continued to pin Marmont in Dalmatia to the south of Laibach.

By this time a large proportion of John's forces was made up of hastily raised Landwehr infantry.

[10] On 13 May, Marshal François Joseph Lefebvre and a Bavarian army wrecked part of Chasteler's corps at the Battle of Wörgl near Innsbruck.

[11] On 17 May, John received orders to cut the communications of Emperor Napoleon's Grand Army by moving north.

[13] John pulled back to Graz, but when he heard of Jelačić's disaster, he decided to retreat east into Hungary.

During May, small Grenz infantry forces heroically defended the mountain passes during the Battle of Tarvis.

Marmont then combined with General of Division Jean-Baptiste Broussier and fought Ignác Gyulay's Austrians in the Battle of Graz from 24 to 26 June.

His 11,000 XI Corps soldiers, plus Broussier, force-marched to join Napoleon near Vienna and fought at the Battle of Wagram.

[25] In the first rush, MG Durutte's troops stormed across the Pándzsa and seized Kis-Megyer farm, but the Austrians quickly took it back.

Four grenadier battalions and the soldiers of the Alvinczi Infantry Regiment # 19 pushed back MG Seras' troops, then fell upon Durutte's division near the farm.

French cannon fire soon silenced the opposing artillery pieces, allowing Grouchy's horsemen to begin fording the stream.

His right flank still ran along the Pándzsa, but at Kis-Megyer farm, the line bent to face south along the Szabadhegy hill.

John, fearing envelopment from Grouchy's cavalry, ordered a retreat northeast into Győr fortress.

One historian writes, Archduke John now reaped the dubious fruits of his incredibly ill-advised policy of breaking up his army after the Battle of Piave River.

This defeat foiled any hopes that Archduke John would be able to bring any significant forces to help in the epic struggle against Napoleon at Wagram on 5 and 6 July.