| Battle of Kircheib | |||||||
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| Part of War of the First Coalition | |||||||
 Section of a 1796 map from the book Grundsätze der Strategie by Archduke Charles of Austria | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 France |
 Austria | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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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.