Siege of Condé (1793)
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The siege of Condé saw a force made up of Habsburg Austrians and French Royalists commanded by Duke Ferdinand Frederick Augustus of Württemberg lay siege to a Republican French garrison led by Jean Ne
The defenses of Condé included ditches that could be flooded via sluice gates.
Some of Condé's old defenses still survive.
Auguste de Dampierre
Battle of Famars
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The Battle of Famars was fought on 23 May 1793 during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. An Allied Austrian, Hanoverian, and British army under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalf
Siege of Condé (1793)
…the ground that they lost on the 8th and the French army retired to the Camp of Famars. On 23 May 1793, the Coalition army defeated the French in the Battle of Famars. The Coalition lost 1,100 casualties out of 53,000 while the 27,000-strong French army, now under Lamarche, lost 3,000 killed and wounded, plus 300…
Battle of Famars