Only a few men escaped from Memmingen into Tyrol: the division, which, if properly supported, might have cut a way through to Noerdlingen three days earlier, was now overwhelmed by the troops of Murat and Lannes; out of 13,000 foot-soldiers very few escaped.

Most of the horsemen succeeded in joining the Archduke Ferdinand, on whose track Murat now flung himself with untiring energy.

The _beau sabreur_ swept through part of Ansbach in pursuit, came up with Ferdinand near Nuremberg, and defeated his squadrons, their chief, with about 1,700 horse and some 500 mounted artillerymen, finally reaching the shelter of the Bohemian Mountains.

All the rest of Mack's great array had been engulfed.
Thus closed the first scene of the War of the Third Coalition.

Hasty preparations, rash plans, and, above all, Mack's fatal ingenuity in reading his notions into facts--these were the causes of a disaster which ruined the chances of the allies.