Army of the Eastern Pyrenees
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The Army of the Eastern Pyrenees was one of the French Revolutionary armies. It fought against the Kingdom of Spain in Roussillon, the Cerdanya and Catalonia during the War of the Pyrenees. This army and the Army of the Western Pyrenees were formed by splitting the original Army of the Pyrenees at the end of April 1793 soon after the war started. Shortly after the Peace of Basel on 22 July 1795, the fighting ended and the army was dissolved on 12 October that same year. Many of its units and generals were transferred to join the Army of Italy and fought under Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796.
View from Fort de Bellegarde in the Pyrenees. Spanish territory is in the right foreground; the rest belongs to France. During the fighting, the French first lost, then regained Bellegarde.
War of the Pyrenees, Eastern Pyrenees
The Battle of Truillas was fought on 22 September 1793.
Louis Marie Turreau
Jacques François Dugommier
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Jacques François Coquille, known as Dugommier, was a French military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Contemporary print of Dugommier's death at the Battle of the Black Mountain