Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te mea ko te nuinga o nga ope o te Emepaea o Parani kua uru ki te Pakanga Peninsular toto, i whakapono te Emepaea o Austria kua tae mai tana whai waahi pai ki te utu i te whiu whakaiti i te tau 1805. I whai nga Austrians ki te hinga i France, ki te whakahoki i to ratou mana o mua i roto i Itari me Germany. I te tīmatanga o te tau 1809, he tino kaha nga whakaritenga pakanga o Austrian i akina ai a Napoleon ki te wehe i Spain ka hoki ki Paris ki te whakariterite i tana ope nui i Tiamana. I te puna, i whakahoutia a Nansouty ki te whakahau i te 1 o nga wehenga hoiho taumaha e toru o te Cavalry Reserve, i tenei wa i raro i te whakahau a Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières. I te pakarutanga o te Pakanga o te Fifth Coalition, ka wehe wawe te wehenga o Nansouty mai i te Reserve ka piri mo te wa poto ki te Marshal Louis Nicolas Davout's III Corps, te kaha i whakawhiwhia ki nga mahi tino uaua i nga mahi hoia i te timatanga o tenei pakanga. I te mea i whakahaua e Napoleon te huihuinga o te ope ki Ratisbon, ka tukuna ano te wehenga o Nansouty ki raro i te whakahau a Bessières ka tukuna ki te mahi ki te ope Bavarian. I muri i ana wikitoria tuatahi i Abensberg me
I te taunga mai o te whenua, ka whakahiatohia e Napoleon te nuinga o tana ope, tae atu ki nga tangata a Nansouty, i Eckmühl, kei reira a Davout e tatari ana.