Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da Hotze ya dauki makamai a kan Faransanci a Switzerland, gwamnatin juyin juya halin kasar Switzerland a Bern ta soke 'yan kasa na Swiss. Ga abokan haɗin gwiwar, duk da haka, asalinsa na Switzerland ya sa ya zama jakadan da ya dace tsakanin Vienna da masu goyon bayan Confederation a Switzerland. Ya yi aiki tare da William Wickham, da kuma Kanar Williams, ɗan Ingilishi a cikin sabis na Austrian, don kafa Bodensee (Lake Constance) Flotilla. A matsayin Feldmarschall-leutnant, ya umurci sojoji 15,000 a Vorarlberg a kan sojojin Faransa na Switzerland, wanda André Masséna ya ba da umurni. Bayan ƙarfafa Feldkirch, ya mamaye sansanin soja a St. Luzisteig, wani muhimmin wucewa (tsawo: ) a cikin Canton na Graubünden wanda ya haɗa da Swiss Confederation da Liechtenstein. Bayan haka, da sanin cewa babban sojojin Faransa sun tsallaka Rhine kuma sun koma arewacin Lake Constance, ya sake tsara tsaron Feldkirch, kuma ya ba da umarni ga Franjo Jelačić, ƙwararren jami'i kuma kwamandan. Hotze ya ɗauki 10,000 na sojojin 15,500 da aka sanya don kare Vorarlberg zuwa Lake Constance, da nufin tallafawa hagu na Archduke Charles a yakin Ostrach
kuma, bayan 'yan kwanaki Stockach. Ko da yake sojojinsa ba su isa lokaci don shiga cikin fadace-fadace ba, barazanar zuwan su na zuwa ya rinjayi shirin Faransa. A cikin rashi, mutanen 5,500 na Jellacic sun fuskanci 12,000 a karkashin jagorancin Janar Janar Jean-Joseph Dessolles da Claude Lecourbe, suna haifar da mummunan rauni (3000) a kan Faransanci yayin da suke shan wahala kadan (900) na kansu.