It was the second battle Hostile_encounter between the French Army of the Danube , commanded Control by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan , and the Habsburg Army under Archduke Charles ; the armies had met Come_together a few days earlier , 20–22 March , on the marshy fields southeast of Ostrach and the Pfullendorf heights .

Their flank was protected Preventing_or_letting by war Hostile_encounter wagons loaded with arquebusiers , and many large ponds and marshy areas surrounded Surrounding the Hussite infantry - ground which the Royalist Cavalry could not hope to cross Motion_directional .

After that , another thousand Royalist cavalrymen , led Causation by Peter von Konopischt of Sternberg - killed Killing in the Battle Hostile_encounter of Vítkov Hill later that year - rushed Motion a weakly held Defending side of the Hussite formation , but were mired Placing in marshy ground .