Bad roads and freezing rain slowed the Austrian advance in the first week, but the opposing Bavarian forces gradually retreated.
On the first of November an Austrian and Bavarian force marched into the electorate.
The place, which is near Hof, was invested by a Bavarian force on 11 October at the beginning of the war.
His forces had lost a third and final battle against the French and Bavarian forces.
Damaging the Bavarian forces into retreating away from the battlefield led to one of the very few French victories in the war.
Many of the rebels were executed by the French and Bavarian forces in the following weeks.
The Godesburg came under attack from Bavarian forces in November 1583.
The most important engagement of that first campaign was the fiercely contested battle at Freiburg against Bavarian forces.
During the Seven Years' War Bavarian forces then fought on Habsburg's side.
The French and Bavarian forces were outmaneuvered and surrounded, and suffered heavy losses.