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
Portrait by Pierre-Louis Bouvier, 1796–1797
Louis XVI visiting the port of Cherbourg in June 1786
1792 bust of Dumouriez by Houdon
The Battle of Jemmapes
Battle of Jemappes
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The Battle of Jemappes took place near the town of Jemappes in Hainaut, Austrian Netherlands, near Mons during the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. One of the first m
Charles François Dumouriez
…at Valmy, forcing an invading Prussian army to withdraw. Dumouriez then launched an invasion of the Austrian Netherlands and scored another victory at Jemappes. In early 1793, he advanced into the Dutch Republic but was driven back to the Austrian Netherlands before suffering a major defeat at Neerwinden. A…
The Battle of Jemappes Horace Vernet, 1821
The monument of the battle in Jemappes.