The Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition, also known as the Flanders campaign, was a series of campaigns in the Low Countries conducted from 20 April 1792 to 7 June 1795 during the
Prussian troops enter Amsterdam, 1787
19th-century painting romanticising the Battle of Jemappes
General Dumouriez. 1834 painting by Jean-Sébastien Rouillard
York's attack on Valenciennes
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The War of the First Coalition was a set of wars between a coalition of several European powers and France fought between 1792 and 1797. The coalition was only loosely allied and fought without much c
Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition
…known as the Flanders campaign, was a series of campaigns in the Low Countries conducted from 20 April 1792 to 7 June 1795 during the first years of the War of the First Coalition. As the French Revolution radicalised, the revolutionary National Convention and its predecessors broke the Catholic Church's power (1790), abolished…
War of the first coalition
The National Guard of Paris Departs for the Army by Léon Cogniet
The Allied evacuation of Toulon in December 1793
Lord Howe's action or The Glorious First of June. Oil painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1795), National Maritime Museum.