Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Dürrenstein (Campaign of the Danube).

Fought November 11, 1805, during Napoleon's advance on Vienna, when Mortier, with one French division, was attacked by 30,000 Russians, and would have been overwhelmed but for the timely arrival of another division. The French lost 3,000; the Russians about the same number.