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Battle of Raab

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A schematic plan, generated from the statistics of the CAA Database of Battles: the armies' size and width, the hours of fighting, the plan of attack and the outcome are as recorded; the ground and the positions are not.
Rolling, Mixed groundCentreCentreLeft wingRight wingLeft wingRight wingReserveReserveHorseHorseHorseHorse02.5 km5 kmN

France (Fr Army, 35,000 men under Eugene) attacked Austria (Aus Army, 37,000 men under John) in Hungary. The CAA Database of Battles records 3 hours of fighting on a front of 11.5 km, a frontal attack, single envelopment, left flank against hasty defense, and that France won. Losses: France 4,000 (11%), Austria 6,211 (17%).

This plan is generated from those figures. It shows the shape of the battle the database describes: the size and width of the armies, the plan of attack and the outcome. It does not show where the units actually stood.

The armies

France

Eugene

UnitArmMen
France left wingInfantry6,960
France centreInfantry9,280
France right wingInfantry6,960
France reserveInfantry5,800
France cavalry of the leftCavalry3,000
France cavalry of the rightCavalry3,000
EugeneCommander—
In this plan35,000

Austria

John

UnitArmMen
Austria left wingInfantry6,720
Austria centreInfantry8,960
Austria right wingInfantry6,720
Austria reserveInfantry5,600
Austria cavalry of the leftCavalry4,500
Austria cavalry of the rightCavalry4,500
JohnCommander—
In this plan37,000

What the sources report

FranceAustria
Strength, this plan35,00037,000
Losses, this plan4,0006,211

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 126, “The Raab”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting
3 hours
Winner
the attacker
Terrain
Rolling, Mixed
Weather
Dry, Sunny, Temperate, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture
Hasty defense
Front width
11.5 km (attacker), 10 km (defender)
ForceStrengthLossesHorseGunsPlan and outcome
Franceattacker35,0004,0006,000—Frontal attack; Single envelopment; Left flank; Breakthrough
Austriadefender37,0006,2119,000—Defensive plan; Withdrew

Attacker’s advantages training +1 · momentum +1 · initiative +1 · combat effectiveness +1

CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0.

Notes

On this reconstruction

Generated automatically from the statistics in CDB90. Frontages, depths, distances, the order of events and the terrain are schematic: they follow the recorded strengths, front widths, hours of fighting, tactical plan and outcome, not maps or accounts of the battle. The sources give no hours; the timing is conjectural.

Sources

Facts gathered from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons (licence per file); the plan and its text are timeastra’s own.