Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Apo Hotze akasimudza zvombo kurwisana navaFrench muSwitzerland, hurumende yeSwitzerland yechimurenga muBern yakamubvisira ugari hweSwitzerland. Nokuda kwevakabatana neCoalition, zvisinei, midzi yake yeSwitzerland yakamuita nhume yakanaka pakati peVienna neConfederation vanonzwira tsitsi muSwitzerland. Akashanda naWilliam Wickham, uye mumwe Colonel Williams, muEngland mubasa reAustria, kuti vagadzire Bodensee (Lake Constance) Flotilla. Sa Feldmarschall-lieutenant, akatungamira mauto 15 000 muVorarlberg vachipesana neFrance Army yeSwitzerland, yaitungamirirwa naAndré Masséna. Mushure mekusimbisa Feldkirch, akakunda nhare paSt. Luzisteig, chinzvimbo chakakosha (kukwirira: ) muCanton yeGraubünden inobatanidza Swiss Confederation neLiechtenstein. Zvadaro, achiziva kuti uto guru reFrance rakanga rayambuka Rhine ndokuenda kuchamhembe kweLake Constance, akarongazve kudzivirirwa kweFeldkirch, ndokupa mutungamiri kuna Franjo Jelačić, mukuru mukuru uye mutungamiri. Hotze akatora varwi 10 000 vevarwi 15 500 vakasarudzwa kuti vadzivirire Vorarlberg vakananga kuLake Constance, vaine chinangwa chokutsigira divi rokuruboshwe raArchduke Charles muhondo dzeOstrach
uye, mazuva mashomanene gare gare Stockach. Kunyange zvazvo mauto ake asina kusvika nenguva kuti atore rutivi muhondo, tyisidziro yokusvika kwavo kwakamirira yakafurira kuronga kwechiFrench. Mukusavapo kwake, varume vaJellacic 5,500 vakatarisana ne12,000 pasi pekutungamira kwevakuru vakuru vechikamu Jean-Joseph Dessolles naClaude Lecourbe, vachipa kurasikirwa kukuru (3000) kumaFrance uku vachitambura kurasikirwa kudiki (900) kwavo.