Battle of Wattignies
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The Battle of Wattignies saw a French army commanded by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan attack a Coalition army directed by Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After two days of combat Jourdan's troops compe
Battle of Wattignies by Eugène Lami
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
Count Bellegarde
Wattignies church
Lazare Carnot
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Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot was a French mathematician, physicist, military officer, politician and a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution. His mil
Battle of Wattignies
…the French to raise the siege of Maubeuge. At a time when failed generals were often executed or imprisoned, Jourdan had to endure interference from Lazare Carnot from the Committee of Public Safety. The village, renamed Wattignies-la-Victoire in honor of the important success, is located 9 kilometres (6 mi…
Portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1813
Lazare Carnot, a feverishly productive member of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. His part in raising the levée en masse probably saved the French Revolutionary armies from defeat at the hands of their numerically superior opponents.
An 1893 depiction by Georges Moreau de Tours of Carnot at the Battle of Wattignies a century earlier
A textbook illustration of Carnot's system of bastion fortification.