sentences:  Battle of Mainz
  
  The Battle of Mainz (29 October 1795) saw a Habsburg army led by François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt launch a surprise assault against four divisions of the French "Army of Rhin-et-Moselle" directed by François Ignace Schaal.The right-hand French division fled the battlefield, compelling the other three divisions to retreat with the loss of their siege artillery and many casualties.