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In the Low Countries, the Allies' immediate aim was to eject the French from the Dutch Republic (modern The Netherlands) and the Austrian Netherlands (modern Belgium), then march on Paris to end the chaotic and bloody French version of republican government. Austria and Prussia broadly supported this aim, but both were short of money.
The Battle of Fleurus, on 26 June 1794, was an engagement during the War of the First Coalition, between the army of the First French Republic, under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, and the Coalition army (Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburg monarchy), commanded by Prince Josias of Coburg, in the most significant battle of the Flanders Campaign in the Low Countries during the French ...
the Low Countries theatre, or Flanders campaign (1792–1795); the Rhine campaigns (Valmy campaign August–September 1792, Mainz/Frankfurt October 1792, Rhine campaign of 1793–94, Rhine campaign of 1795, Rhine campaign of 1796); the April 1792 incursions into Switzerland; the Italian campaigns (April 1792 – October 1797);
Flanders campaign may refer to: 1709 campaign in the War of the Spanish Succession; Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition (1792–1795) during the French Revolutionary War; Battle of Flanders (disambiguation), any of a series of battles in the First World War (1914–1918) Campaign during the German invasion of Belgium (1940)
Pages in category "Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The French soldiers were insulted, hissed, even assaulted. The situation of the "Flanders Campaign" was alarming. [22] While the revolutionary government frantically raised fresh troops and reorganized its armies, an allied army under Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick assembled at Koblenz on the Rhine. The invasion commenced in July ...
The Battle of Famars was fought on 23 May 1793 during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.An Allied Austrian, Hanoverian, and British army under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld defeated the French Army of the North led by François Joseph Drouot de Lamarche.
Three important battles were fought in Fleurus, a suburb of Charleroi on the north bank of the Sambre: the Thirty Years' War Battle of Fleurus (1622), the Nine Years' War Battle of Fleurus (1690), and the crucial 26 June 1794 Battle of Fleurus (1794), the most significant battle of the Flanders Campaign in the Low Countries during the French ...