Charles Dumouriez, choosing to ignore orders from …
Years: 1793 - 1793
February
Charles Dumouriez, choosing to ignore orders from the government in Paris to defend Belgium, leads the northern French army in an occupation of the Austrian Netherlands in February 1793, hoping to overthrow the stadtholder and establish a popular republic backed by France.
In the event, he takes Breda in Brabant and prepares to cross into Holland and capture Dordrecht.
However, ...
Locations
People
Groups
- Austria, Archduchy of
- Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic)
- Habsburg Monarchy, or Empire
- Spain, Bourbon Kingdom of
- Britain, Kingdom of Great
- Netherlands, Southern (Austrian)
- Sardinia, Kingdom of (Savoy)
- Naples and Sicily, Bourbon Kingdom of
- French First Republic
Topics
- French Revolution
- First Coalition, War of the
- French Revolutionary Wars, or “Great French War”
- French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1793
