200] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



received orders, on the twenty-se- 

 venth, to return from Offeuburgh 

 to Kehl, and, marching up from 

 thence alone the banks of the Rhine 

 by forced marches, he arrived at 

 Fribourg on the thirtieth of April. 

 General St. Cyr, who had reached 

 Fribourg without losing a man, pur- 

 sued, meanwhile, that course of 

 march, which was necessary to form 

 the junction of the whole army, be- 

 tween Schwetlingen and Schaffhau- 

 sen, near the Lake of Constance. 

 The division, under the immediate 

 command of Moreau, crossed the 

 Rhine, at Basle, and proceeded, 

 without any considerable opposi- 

 tion, to the point where the various 

 divisions were to meet. General 

 Lecourbe, with the division under 

 his command, crossed the Rhine 

 between SchafFhausen and Stein, 

 and, after some fighting and making a 

 good number of prisoners, the whole 

 army, with the exception of the 

 corps under general St. Susanne, 

 was assembled at, and in the en- 

 virons of, SchafFhausen. In the 

 course of these various marches, the 

 French took fifteen hundred prison- 

 ers, and six pieces of cannon. The 

 division, under Lecourbe, likewise 

 took, by capitulation, the castle of 

 Hohenweil, in which there were 

 eighty pieces of cannon. The great 

 magazines of the Austrians were at 

 Kampten, a town in Upper Suabia. 

 The French general directing his 

 march towards this point, with a 

 view to cut off general Kray from 

 his principal depot, or, at least, in the 

 mean time, to eflfect the main object 

 of occupying the whole of his force 

 and attention in Germany, drove 

 all the Austrian advanced posts be- 

 fore him, and advanced to attack 

 the imperialists at Stockach. 

 The masterly manoeuvres of Mo^ 



reau had completely deceived ge- 

 neral Kray, respecting the plan of 

 attack meditated by the French. 

 In an official account, published in 

 the Vienna Court Gazette, of the 

 third of May, we find the general 

 announcing thepassageof the Rhine, 

 on the twenty-fifth, and that, in 

 consequence of having foreseen this 

 manoeuvre, he had sent a great body 

 of troops to prevent the French 

 from following up their plan of ex- 

 tending themselves in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Rastadt. He consi- 

 dered the feint made, by general 

 Susanne's division, as the main at- 

 tack, and concentrated all his forces 

 at Donaueschingen, at the moment 

 when, under cover of that feint, 

 Moreau was enabled, as just ob- 

 served, to cross the Rhine at a point, 

 which enabled him completely to 

 turn the position of the Austrian 

 army. 



The consequences of Moreau's 

 plan were immediate. General 

 Kray was compelled to decamp pre- 

 cipitately from Donaueschingen, 

 in order to oppose the progress of 

 the French army, leaving in their 

 hands, in abandoning his position 

 at Donaueschingen, a great part 

 of what is called the angle of Sua- 

 bia. The Austrian magazines and 

 stores were either conveyed away 

 in haste, left behind, or destroyed. 

 The left wing of the French, under 

 general Susanne, on the third of 

 May, entered Donaueschingen, 

 which had been evacuated by the 

 Austrians, and pressed upon their 

 rear, stretching out his flanks, at 

 the same time, to the main body of 

 Moreau's army, endeavoured to 

 establish themselves in the lines of 

 Stockach, in order to oppose the 

 lines of the enemy. On the third 

 of May, a part of the French army 



