"Battle of Eckmühl, April 22nd, 1809 at 06:00 PM" (detail). The 2nd battalion of the Broder Grenz (Mesko's brigade) was annihilated, with 18 officers and 1,040 rank an… The Battle of Eckmühl ended in a convincing French victory, and Charles decided to withdraw over the Danube towards Regensburg. Watercolor painting by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti.
The French scored a convincing win in the resulting Battle of Eckmühl, forcing Charles to withdraw his forces over the Danube and into Bohemia. Battle of Eckmühl 1809 Posted on July 11, 2019 by MSW Antoine de Marbot recounted an incident that demonstrated the properties of the two styles of cuirass, when at Eckmühl in April 1809 French and Austrian cuirassiers crashed together, while the accompanying light cavalry drew off to the flanks to avoid being caught up in the fight. Discover the battlefield of Eckmühl from the sky on Google Maps (External link opening new window) Display the map of the situation at the beginning of the battle.

Arnold lists 1,107 Allied casualties, including 746 Bavarians.
He gives Austrian losses as 492 killed, 2,219 wounded, and nearly 4,000 captured, or a total of 6,711. Austrian total losses are given as 6,872, including 3,000 to 4,000 captured. Assuming that the bulk of the Austrian army was deployed so as to cover their bridgehead at Landshut and the main highway to Vienna, on 20 April 1809, Napoleon launched most of his army in an attack to the Southwest. The French also captured eight colors and 12 cannons. Digby Smithnotes Allied casualties as 34 dead and 438 wounded, but this seems to count only the German allied troops.

Operating over a fifty mile front, from Ratisbon to Pfaffenhofen (district), marked by stretches of rugged, wooded terrain, neither the French nor the Austrians had developed adequate intelligence about their opponent's strength, dispositions or intentions. Enlarge.