Battle of Kircheib

Battle of Kircheib
	Part of War of the First Coalition
	; Section of a 1796 map from the book Grundsätze der Strategie by Archduke Charles of Austria
Date	19 June 1796
Location	Various villages in Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate,modern-day Germany
Result	Austrian Victory
Belligerents
France	Austria
Commanders and leaders
Jean-Baptiste Kléber	Paul Kray of Krajowa; Merveldt
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.