Coming Soon to this Blog...

 It was some time ago that I posted the acount of Babensham.  The followup battle of Jettensbach was fought at the club meeting on 14 February, now six weeks ago, so it is high time I gave an account of it. Briefly, the Austrian rearguard of the retreat from Babensham was caught by the French late the following morning, and felt constrained to give battle.    The map is below, with the Austrians retreating eastward along the south bank of the Inn and the pursuing French coming from the south and west.

Yesterday we fought another Russian battle, with the whole of the 1st West Army suffering a convincing defeat (tactically, anyway - the strategic effects remain to be seen...) at the hands of the French II and V Corps.  On the map below the French are at both ends of the map (north and south), with the Russians in the middle.

I will get to that one soon too, I trust, and perhaps some thoughts on fighting with Russians.  The Russians in the campaign have now fought two battles - one victorious although outnumbered and one defeat although in what seemed to me a good position.

I am pretty busy with other things at present, but will try to make some progress here before long...