On 3 December 1800 Moreau won a decisive victory over an Austrian and Bavarian force under the young Archduke John, forcing the allies to request an armistice.

The Battle of Hohenlinden was fought on 3 December 1800 during the French Revolutionary Wars, 33 km east of Munich. A French army under Jean Victor Marie Moreau won a decisive victory over an Austrian and Bavarian force led by 18-year-old Archduke John of Austria. Moreau's generals, displaying superb individual initiative, encircled and smashed the largest Austrian column. The allies were forced into a disastrous retreat that compelled them to request an armistice, effectively ending the War of the Second Coalition. The victory made Moreau a potential rival to Napoleon Bonaparte.

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