Battle of Valmy
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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
The Battle of Valmy Horace Vernet, 1826
Valmy obelisk with statue of Kellermann
A modern replica of the windmill at Valmy stands amid a memorial site.
Mauzaisse Jean Baptiste - Louis-Philippe visite le champ de bataille de Valmy - 1837
Charles François Dumouriez
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Divisional-General Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez was a French Army officer and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of War in the Constitutional Cabinet of Louis XV
Battle of Valmy
…took place on 20 September 1792 as Prussian troops commanded by the Duke of Brunswick attempted to march on Paris. Generals François Kellermann and Charles Dumouriez stopped the advance near the northern village of Valmy in Champagne-Ardenne. In this early part of the Revolutionary Wars—known as the War of the First…
Portrait by Pierre-Louis Bouvier, 1796–1797
Louis XVI visiting the port of Cherbourg in June 1786
1792 bust of Dumouriez by Houdon
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