Editing Battle of Höchstädt (1800) (section)

==Aftermath==
[[File:Leopold Kupelwieser 001.jpg|thumbnail|left|Emperor Francis II replaced Paul Kray (1735–1804) with his brother, Archduke John (above), after the Kray's losses in the Danube campaign.]]
Once the French had secured the downstream shores of the Danube, Kray had no choice but to evacuate his corps from Ulm, leaving only a small garrison behind. The French invested the fortress at Ulm immediately, and on the 20th, the 6th Chasseurs captured a [[convoy]] of 300 wagons loaded with grain.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>  A few days later, a general armistice halted all fighting. [[Francis II of Austria|Emperor Francis II]] dismissed Pál Kray and appointed his brother, the 18-year-old [[Archduke John]], to command the Austrian army. To bolster the inexperienced archduke, the Emperor named [[Franz von Lauer]] as deputy commander and [[Oberst]] ([[Colonel]]) [[Franz von Weyrother]] as [[chief of staff]].<ref>Arnold, pp. 205, 213.</ref>

The campaign culminating in Kray's evacuation of Ulm was one of Moreau's most resounding triumphs. Napoleon Bonaparte had given Moreau specific instructions about the conduct of the campaign, all of which Moreau had ignored. Regardless, their combined efforts damaged Habsburg military operations. In early 1800, while Moreau wrecked Austrian defenses in Germany, [[Massena]] and [[Louis Desaix|Desaix]] ran into stiff Austrian offensives in [[Northern Italy]]. Napoleon brought in the reserve corps and defeated the Austrians at [[Battle of Marengo|Marengo]]. The battle near Höchstädt, five days after the Austrian failure at Marengo, allowed the French to take [[Munich]]. The combined efforts forced the Habsburgs to accept an [[armistice]], which ended hostilities for the rest of the summer, but the French extracted massive levies on the Bavarians. Despite these significant losses—both of them decisive—the Austrians were reluctant to accept disadvantageous peace terms. In mid-November, the French ended the truce and Moreau inflicted another significant and decisive defeat at [[Battle of Hohenlinden|Hohenlinden]], on 3 December 1800.<ref>Gregory Fremont Barnes. ''Napoleon Bonaparte''.  Osprey Publishing, 2012, p. 73.</ref>  The subsequent [[Peace of Lunéville]] stripped Austria of much of her Italian territories, obliged the [[Habsburg]]s to recognize the French satellites in the [[Low Countries]], Switzerland, and northern Italy, and laid the groundwork for the mediatization of the small independent ecclesiastical and secular imperial polities by the duchies of [[Duchy of Baden|Baden]] and Württemberg, and the Electorate of Bavaria.<ref>Rothenberg, pp. 43–44.</ref>