Editing Battles of Stockach and Engen (section)

===Plans===
At the beginning of 1800 the armies of France and the Habsburgs faced each other across the Rhine. [[Feldzeugmeister]] [[Paul Kray]] led approximately 120,000 troops. Beside his regular Austrian soldiers he led 12,000 men from the [[Electorate of Bavaria]], 6,000 troops from the [[Duchy of Württemberg]], 5,000 soldiers of low quality from the [[Archbishopric of Mainz]] and 7,000 militiamen from the [[County of Tyrol]]. Of these 25,000 men were deployed east of [[Lake Constance|Lake Constance (Bodensee)]] to protect the [[Vorarlberg]]. Kray posted his main body of 95,000 soldiers in the L-shaped angle, where the Rhine changes direction from a westward flow along the northern border of [[Switzerland]] to a northward flow along the eastern border of France. Unwisely, Kray set up his main magazine at [[Stockach]], only a day's march from French-held Switzerland.{{sfnp|Arnold|2005|pp=197–199}}

[[Feldmarschall-Leutnant]] [[Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen]] commanded the 25,000 troops in the Vorarlberg which included the Tyrolese. The 40,000-man center led by Feldmarschall-Leutnant [[Friedrich Joseph, Count of Nauendorf]] was posted from Lake Constance on the east to [[Villingen]] on the west, with its forward elements along the [[Rhine]] between the lake and [[Basel]]. The right wing consisted of the 15,000 troops of Feldmarschall-Leutnant [[Michael von Kienmayer]]{{sfnp|Dodge|2011|p=218}} guarding the passes through the [[Black Forest]], 16,000 soldiers under Feldmarschall-Leutnant [[Anton Sztáray]] behind the Rhine from the [[Rench]] River north to the [[Main River]] and 8,000 men defending [[Frankfurt]]. Finally, a 20,000-strong reserve hovered near [[Stockach]]. There were garrisons in all the major fortresses and a small naval squadron on Lake Constance. In total, Kray disposed of 110,000 infantry, 25,000 cavalry, 4,000 gunners and 500 artillery pieces. In his rear was a major supply base and an entrenched camp at [[Ulm]]. The Habsburg general was able to trace one line of supply through [[Munich]] to [[Archduchy of Austria|Austria]] and a second one through [[Regensburg]] to [[Bohemia]].<ref name=Dodge219>Dodge (2011), p. 219</ref>

[[General of Division]] [[Jean Victor Marie Moreau]] commanded a well-equipped army of 137,000 French troops. Of these, 108,000 troops were available for field operations while the other 29,000 watched the Swiss border and held the Rhine fortresses. First Consul [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] offered a bold plan of operations based on outflanking the Austrians by a push from Switzerland, but Moreau declined to follow it. Rather, Moreau planned to cross the Rhine near [[Basel]] where the river swung to the north. A French column would distract Kray from Moreau's true intentions by crossing the Rhine from the west. Bonaparte wanted General of Division [[Claude Lecourbe]]'s corps to be detached to Italy after the initial battles, but Moreau had other plans.{{sfnp|Arnold|2005|pp=199-201}}