202] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



general Moreaii wrote, by the tele- 

 graph, to the French minister of 

 war, as follows : " The right wing 

 of the army, commanded by gene- 

 ral Lecourbe, attacked the enemy 

 on the twenty-iir.nt of Floreal 

 (eleventh of May), in their position 

 at Memmingen. They were com- 

 pletely beaten. Memmingen has 

 been taken, more than two thou- 

 sand prisoners have been made, and 

 a great number of dead were left 

 on the field of battle." The ac- 

 counts of the Austrians state, that 

 the advantage in this action was on 

 their side. However this may be, 

 general Kray, leaving a considerable 

 body of troopsi under general Mere- 

 veldt, to keep up the communica- 

 tion with general Reus in the Vo- 

 ralberg, retreated to Ulm, for the 

 protection of his magazines there. 

 At Ulm he was joined by general 

 Sztarray, with the troops under his 

 command, and six thousand Bava- 

 rian and Wirtemburg auxiliaries, 

 under the orders of the baron de 

 Deux-Ponts. The main body of 

 the imperial army was posted at 

 Phuel, half a league from Ulm. — 

 This city had a garrison often thou- 

 sand moil, commanded by general 

 Petrarsch and major Davidovich. 

 General Sztarray, with additional 

 troops, raised the number of the 

 garrison, which came under his 

 command, to the number of eigh- 

 teen thousand. The gates were 

 guarded by the auxiliaries. 



The French were also concen- 

 trated on the territory of the impe- 

 rial city of Ulm, near Rheineck, 

 little more than a league from Ulm. 

 In this situation of the two armies, 

 it seemed that the Frsnch were de- 

 sirous of giving battle to general 

 Kray, who, on the other hand, v/as 

 desirous to avoid it, until the rein- 



forcements promised, and part of 

 which were on their way, should 

 arrive from Austria. Six battalions 

 of infantry, of the garrison of Vi- 

 enna, were on their march, and to 

 be followed by six more, and five 

 squadrons of cuirassiers. The gar- 

 risons of the cities in Austria, Bo- 

 hemia, and Moravia, were repairing 

 partly to the Danube, and partly 

 to the Adige, on each of which 

 rivers there was to be formed 3 

 body of reserve. As no inviting 

 circumstances for an attack were 

 presented to either party, both ge- 

 nerals contented themselves with 

 mutual observation, while teiTor and 

 consternation prevailed throughout 

 the circle of Suabia. 



But this state of inaction and re- 

 pose, if it comforted the Austrians 

 with the hope of succours, was still 

 more advantageous to the cause of 

 the invaders, who laid the whole 

 of Franconia and Suabia under se- 

 vere contribution, intercepted the 

 supplies, and took or destroyed not 

 a few of the Austrian magazines, 

 supported themselves at the expense 

 of the Germans, kept the grand 

 Austrian army in check, and on a 

 constant alert, andprevented general 

 Kray from sending any considerable 

 detachment to Italy. 



In the mean time, the plan of 

 co-operation, concerted between 

 Buonaparte and Moreau, began to 

 be pretty clearly developed. While 

 Moreau still made a shew of directing 

 the main force of his army to the 

 countries on the left bank of the 

 Rhine, he began to detach part of his 

 troops towards the Lake of Con- 

 stance: whither he afterwards with- 

 drew with the main body, with an in- 

 tention to remain on the defensive, 

 and favour, as much as possible, the 

 operation of the campaign in Italy.^ 



