64,000 Autrichiens Avec Un Piège Parfait — Moreau Retourna Le Piège et Captura Quatre-Vingt-Sep...

Eighteen-year-old Archduke John of Austria looks at his maps and smiles. Victory is certain. December 3, 1800. Sixty-four thousand Austrian soldiers converge in four columns on the Hohenlinden Forest. Facing them are fifty-six thousand French troops under General Moreau. The Archduke has prepared a perfect trap: encircle, crush, destroy. What he doesn't know is that Moreau deliberately let the Austrians enter the forest. While the Archduke believes he has tightened his noose, thirty-year-old General Richepanse leads five thousand men through treacherous forest paths. He appears behind the Austrian columns. The trap is sprung—but in reverse. Fourteen thousand dead and wounded. Twelve thousand prisoners. Eighty-seven cannons captured. The four Austrian columns, isolated from one another, collapse one after another. Archduke John, eighteen years old and inexperienced, had set the perfect trap. Moreau had just turned it against him. Six weeks later, Austria signed the peace treaty. Subscribe for more stories of French military genius.