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The Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition, also known as the Flanders campaign, was a series of campaigns in the Low Countries conducted from 20 April 1792 to 7 June 1795 during the first years of the War of the First Coalition.
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 ...
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 .
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)
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);
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.
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 ...
After an intense spring full of fighting, Fleurus was the last straw for the morale of the Austrian high command. Already shaky in their resolve to defend Flanders, [2]: 347–9 Austrian diplomats decided to abandon the Low Countries after the battle, and began to plan for a retreat to the Meuse to exit the theatre to the east. [citation needed]