Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Nechikamu chikuru chemauto eUmambo hweFrance zvino chabatanidzwa muHondo yePeninsular ine ropa, Umambo hweAustria hwakafunga kuti mukana wahwo wakanakisisa wokutsiva kukundwa kunonyadzisa kwa 1805 pakupedzisira wakanga wasvika. VaAustria vakanga vachitsvaka kukurira France ndokudzorera pesvedzero yavo yapakuvamba muItaly neGermany. Mukuvamba kwa 1809, gadziriro dzehondo dzeAustria dzakanga dzakasimba kwazvo zvokuti Napoleon akamanikidzwa kusiya Spain ndokudzokera kuParis kundorongazve uto rake guru muGermany. Muchirimo, Nansouty nokudaro akayeuchidzwa kuti atungamirire 1st yezvikamu zvitatu zvevatasvi vemabhiza zveCavalry Reserve, yakaiswa nguva ino pasi pekutungamirirwa kwaMarchal Jean-Baptiste Bessières. Sezvo Hondo yeChishanu yeChishanu yakatanga, chikamu cha Nansouty chakakurumidza kusunungurwa kubva kuReserve uye chakabatanidzwa kwenguva pfupi kuMarshal Louis Nicolas Davout's III Corps, simba rakapiwa mabasa akaoma zvikuru munguva yekutanga kwemauto ehondo iyi. Sezvo Napoleon ipapo akaraira kuunganidzwa kweuto paRatisbon, chikamu cha Nansouty chakaiswazve pasi pekutungamira kwaBessières uye chakatumirwa kunoshanda neuto reBavaria. Pashure pokukunda kwake kwokutanga paAbensberg uye
Akundikana, Napoleon akaunganidza uto rake rose, kusanganisira varume va Nansouty, paEckmühl, uko Davout akanga akamirira.