The Austrians
Following the catastrophe of Babensham-Jettenbach, the Austrian army retreated down both banks of the Inn to the next line of defence on the Salzach. Contact was successfully broken off with the French, the bridges burned at Marktl (across the Inn) and Burghausen (on the Salzach). Werneck ensconced his corps in the fortress of Brauau, while the forces of Klenau and Riesch pushed on further toward the Bavarian fortress of Passau. It had not been garrisoned, and Hessen-Homburg secured its commander's surrender on the 12th, entering the city without opposition.
A week later a small mishap occured as Klenau's corps evacuated the city in accordance with orders to form up ready to march to the west. A road and gate was left unguarded, and a patrol of French hussars slipped unchallenged into the city (one hussar uniform looks much like another, after all), and only when they were ordering drinks in the Marktplatz did it dawn on them that they were in an enemy-held city. About then they also become aware of a column of Austrian cavalry, led by Freiherr von Mesko, entering the city by the south gate, across the Salzach, and made themselves scarce via the northern gate across the Danube. Now entirely cut off from their fellows by the great river, they explored up its bank to find out what the Austrians were up to, in hopes of having something to report when they finally found their way back.
