The Battle Hostile_encounter of Modena ( 12 June 1799 ) saw a Republican French army commanded Control by Jacques MacDonald attack Attack a Habsburg Austrian covering Hiding_objects force led by Prince Friedrich Franz Xaver of Hohenzollern-Hechingen .

Modena is a city in northern Italy about northwest of Bologna .

Bursting out of the Apennine Mountains , the French mauled Bodily_harm Hohenzollern 's division at Modena .