MAP PLAN BATTLE OF ECKMUHL BAVARIA NAPOLEONIC CAMPAIGN

BATTLE
 OF
 ECHMUHL

22 APRIL 1809

Showing the positions of the French and Austrian cavalry, infantry and artillery.

 While the majority of Napoleon Bonaparte’s army pursued the Austrians towards Landshut, Marshal Dabvout was to follow what was believed to be the smaller body of enemy troops towards Eckmuhl.
The marshal had been sent into danger’s way with poor imperial intelligence. His 20,000 men found themselves up against 75,000 Austrians under the extremely capable Archduke Charles.  Knowing the calibre of his opponent, Charles initially attacked Davout with 40,000 troops.  Davout’s III Corps defended soundly but, by 1pm, were being forced back by the overwhelming odds. Riders came in to Davout informing him that Marshal Lannes was near with 30,000 fresh soldiers and so an immediate assault was ordered to tie the Austrians down. The fighting was brutal, but the extra troops allowed two of France’s best marshals to smash both Austrian wings. By the time Charles ordered a retreat he had lost Eckmuhl, along with 7,000 casualties and a further 5,000 men captured.
The French suffered 6,000 casualties.

Original antique steel plate engraving published
in 1848 with original hand colour

This is one of a series of maps and plans of sieges and battles drawn up by Alexander Keith Johnston, geographer at Edinburgh to Queen Victoria, and published as an atlas to accompany Sir Archibald Alison’s Monumental History Of Europe.
Paper size is 9 by 7¼ inches.

A genuine antique not a reproduction.