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By intelligence from the Imperial head- 
quarters uear Schufennied, dated the 21ft 
of March, it appears, that a French ad- 
jutant came to the Auftrian camp the day 
betore, and enquired whether the expla- 
Nations required trom the Court of 
Vienna had arrived ; and as the Prince 
had received nothing to this effect, the 
French officer pronounced the armittice to 
be at an end; and declared war in the 
name of the directory. He had fcarcely 
retired when a violent attack was made 
on the Imperial brigades ‘This corps tell 
back, as they had not expected an attack 
fo fudden ; they, however, toon rallied, 
and threw the enemy into diforder, made 
feveral prifoners, and afterwards ad- 
vanced. ne 
On the 21ft, the Archduke, on his 
fide, made an attack on the French, which 
began at ten o'clock with awarm can- 
nonade and fire of mufquetry, and ended 
at fouro’clock. The refult of this firft 
engagement was fomewhat favourable to 
the Auftrians. The French, notwith- 
ftanding their obftinate refiftance, were 
driven from their pofition, and obliged 
to fall back to Pfullendorff. However 
the main army under General Jourdan 
continued to advance, and drove back 
the weak pofts of the Auftrians on all 
fides. The French commanders alledging 
that this was not to be confidered asa 
commencement of hoftilities, but that 
they were obliged to take poffeflion of 
certain pofts according to orders which 
they had received. In this manner Jou: - 
dan advanced with his army near to 
Oftrach, while on the left,General Ferino, 
who had been detached with his divifion 
to the Lake of Conttance, drove back the 
afts of Major-general Piazcheck to 
Daientiurich. In proportion as the 
French advanced, the Archduke made 
more hafty marches, and on the 2oth, 
reached the heights near Saulgau and 
Altthaufen, and encamped with his main 
body, in a pofition, but one day’s march 
diltant from the main body of the French 
army. On the fame day that the Auftrians 
took this pofition, the French attacked 
their advanced guard, overpowered fome 
of the foremoft detachments, and advanced 
even to Hoiltzkirchen and Klofterfuffen. 
The detachments which had been driven 
back, however, had no fooner received 
reinforcements than they drove the French 
back to fome diftance in their turn. As 
the Archduke had now advanced’ by 
forced marches, he had refolved to make 
the attack upon the French near Oftrach*, 

* ‘This village is not laid dowi in any 0 
the maps of Germany which have been pub- 
lithed in England. 

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where they had taken their pofition, and 
arranged his army for that purpofe, he 
himfelf led the middle column. He fuc- 
ceeded in driving the enemy, after an ob- 
ftinate refiftance, from their tation, and’ 
purfued them to the heights*6f Pfullen- 
dorff. In this advantageous polition, 
the French again-made a ftand, their 
whole front being covered by a marthy 
valley ; the Archduke drew the greateft 
part of his army towards the right dank 
of the French, in order to attack them on 
that fide, and in the rear, but this at- 
tack could not be made on the 21ft on 
account of the night coming on; the 
enemy, however, did not chufe to wait 
for it, but retreated in the night te 
Stockach, whither they were followed b 
the advanced guard of the Auftrians. 
~The Archduke fays.in his account of the 
movements made by his army on the 2oth 
and 21ft near Oftrach, in the vicinity of 
Pfuilendorff, that his lofs in killed and 
wounded was not mall, as the attack of 
the ftrong pofition near Oftrach was ex- 
tremely difficult ; the lofs of the enemy 
however, he fays, muft have been much 
more confiderable. 
The Archduke fays, that on the 2oth 
of March, the day on which he trans- 
ferred his head-qnarters to Schuflenried, 
the French attacked during the whole 
morning the chain of his advanced pofts 
all along from Oftrach; bet notwith- 
{tanding the great numbers of their troops, 
they did not fucceed in driving them back 
in all points. On the 2:ft he attacked 
the French, who had affembled their prin- 
cipal forces at Ottrach, and taken an 
advantageous pofition, which feemed to 
give a fuperiority to a foe who knew fo 
well how to profit by fuch a circum- 
tance; yet the Auftrians foon forced the 
narrow defile of Oltrach, and chafed the 
enemy from their pofition. The Arch- 
duke inftantly pafled Oftrach with his 
whole army, and advanced with a part of 
it the fame day into the vicinity of Pful- . 
lendorff; leaving that city on the right. 
Here his army encamped for the night ; 
it being his intention to attack on thé 
22d, the right flank of the enemy which 
had halted near Prullendorff; but the 
French did not think proper to wait for 
him, but retired in the night to Stockach; 
his advanced guard purfued them: the 
number of prifoners, the Archduke fays, 
is >nknown, but the lofs cf ‘the enemy ix 
killed and wounded, muit have been con- 
fiderable. 
On the 22d of March, on the fide of 
the Tyrol, General Oudinot attempted 
to crest battertes on a-beight in front of 
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