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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.
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 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 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 1794 Flanders campaign had not gone well for the Allies. Despite initial successes in capturing the fort of Landrecies in their centre, they were in turn pushed back on their right flank by General Charles Pichegru's left wing of the Army of the North, which captured Menin, Courtrai and Ypres and fought the battles of Mouscron, Willems, Courtrai, Tourcoing and Tournai.
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 as seen from NASA space satellite. The Low Countries (Dutch: de Lage Landen; French: les Pays-Bas), historically also known as the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlanden), is a coastal lowland region in Northwestern Europe forming the lower basin of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and consisting today of the three modern "Benelux" countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, and the ...
Map showing the course of the battle of Tournai. Dotted red lines signify the Allied outpost line, while the redoubts and earthworks of the Allied inner defences are also shown. Allied deployments and some French deployments are conjecture only. A map of Tournai in June 1794 shows the Froyennes-Marquain-Lamain inner defenses in greater detail.