 Jourdan later claimed that the Austrians had lost 7 @,@ 000 killed or wounded , plus another 4 @,@ 000 prisoners , and several cannons . For the whole day of the general engagement , the French had remained on the field of battle without meat , bread or brandy , and their animals had been without forage : " it is impossible to deny , " Jourdan wrote later , " without the most glaring injustice or falsehood , that we gained a victory . " Both sides claimed a victory , but most 19th- and 20th @-@ century historians granted it to the Austrian force . 
