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The Battle of Valmy, also known as the Cannonade of Valmy, was the first major victory by the army of France during the Revolutionary Wars that followed the French Revolution. The battle took place on 20 September 1792 as Prussian troops commanded by the Duke of Brunswick attempted to march on Paris .
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The French Revolutionary Wars (French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great Britain , Austria , Prussia , Russia , and several other countries.
The term is distinct from "French Revolutionary Wars", which covers any war involving Revolutionary France between 1792 and 1799, when Napoleon seized power with the Coup of 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799), which is usually considered the end of the French Revolution. Since the War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802) had already begun when ...
The route from the Tuileries Palace to Varennes-en-Argonne (approximate distance 250 km). The Flight to Varennes (French: fuite de Varennes) during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which the French royal family—comprising Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, the Dauphin Louis Charles, Marie-Thérèse, Madame Royale, and Madame Élisabeth ...
The Battle of Valmy is an 1826 history painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. [1] [2] It depicts the Battle of Valmy, one of the earliest battles of the French Revolutionary Wars fought on 20 September 1792. [3] The revolutionary French troops defeated an advance by a coalition of foreign forces under the command of the Duke of Brunswick. [4]
The Grand Attack on Valenciennes by the Combined Armies is a 1794 history painting by the French-born British artist Philip James de Loutherbourg.It depicts the gathering of Allies Generals during the Siege of Valenciennes in September 1793 during the Flanders Campaign of the French Revolutionary War. [1]
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