Battle of Kircheib | |||||||
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Part of War of the First Coalition | |||||||
![]() Section of a 1796 map from the book Grundsätze der Strategie by Archduke Charles of Austria | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
24,000 | 14,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
1,500 | 400 |
The Battle of Kircheib (German: Schlacht bei Kircheib) was a military engagement during the War of the First Coalition. On 19 June 1796, French and Austrian troops clashed at Kircheib in the Westerwald uplands in present-day Germany. Sometimes it is called the Battle of Uckerath (Schlacht bei Uckerath) after another nearby village, Uckerath, which belongs today to Hennef.