Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe Hotze buuru ngwá agha lụso ndị France agha na Switzerland, ndị ọchịchị Switzerland na-eme mgbanwe n'oge ahụ na Bern napụrụ ya ikike ịbụ nwa amaala Switzerland. Otú ọ dị, nye ndị jikọrọ aka na Njikọ ahụ, mgbọrọgwụ Switzerland ya mere ka ọ bụrụ ezigbo onye nnọchi anya n'etiti Vienna na ndị na-akwado Confederation na Switzerland. Ya na William Wickham, na Colonel Williams, onye England na-arụrụ ndị Austria ọrụ, rụkọrọ ọrụ iji guzobe ụgbọ mmiri Bodensee (Lake Constance). Dị ka Feldmarschall-lieutenant, o duziri ndị agha 15,000 na Vorarlberg megide ndị agha France nke Switzerland, nke André Masséna duziri. Mgbe o wusiri Feldkirch ike, o meriri ebe e wusiri ike na St. Luzisteig, bụ nnukwu ụzọ (elu: ) na Canton nke Graubünden nke jikọtara Switzerland na Liechtenstein. Mgbe ahụ, na-aghọta na isi French agha gafere Rhine na kwagara n'ebe ugwu nke Lake Constance, ọ hazigharịrị nchebe nke Feldkirch, na deputy iwu ka Franjo Jelačić, a ike ojii na ọchịagha. Hotze kpọọrọ puku mmadụ iri n'ime ndị agha iri na ise na narị ise e kenyere ichebe Vorarlberg gawa n'Ọdọ Mmiri Constance, na-ezube ịkwado aka ekpe nke Archduke Charles n'agha nke
Ostrach na, ụbọchị ole na ole ka e mesịrị, Stockach. Ọ bụ ezie na ndị agha ya abịaghị n'oge iji sonye n'agha ndị ahụ, ihe iyi egwu nke mbata ha na-echere metụtara atụmatụ ndị France. Na anọghị ya, Jellacic 5,500 ndị ikom chere ihu 12,000 n'okpuru iwu nke ndị ọchịagha nke ngalaba Jean-Joseph Dessolles na Claude Lecourbe, na-eme ka ndị France nwee nnukwu ọnwụ (3000) ebe ha na-ata ahụhụ dị ntakịrị (900) nke ha.