Campaigns of 1792 in the French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars began on 20 April 1792 when the French Legislative Assembly declared war on Austria. This launched the War of the First Coalition.
Austrian field marshal Beaulieu defeated the French invaders.
Storming of the Tuileries. 1793 painting.
The 20 September Battle of Valmy was the first significant French victory. Up until then, France had suffered one defeat after another, leading desperate revolutionaries to radicalise and turn against the monarchy.
The Declaration of Pillnitz was a statement of five sentences issued on 27 August 1791 at Pillnitz Castle near Dresden (Saxony) by Frederick William II of Prussia and the Habsburg Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor who was Marie Antoinette's brother. It declared the joint support of the Holy Roman Empire and of Prussia for King Louis XVI of France against the French Revolution.
The meeting at Pillnitz Castle in 1791. Oil painting by J. H. Schmidt, 1791.