The Army of Sambre and Meuse (French: Armée de Sambre-et-Meuse) was a field army of the French Revolutionary Army. It was formed on 29 June 1794 by combining...
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the French revolutionary Army of Sambre-and-Meuse under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, and the left wing of an Austrian army under the François Sebastien...
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resigned, and was replaced by Count Clerfayt. The Austrians held their position on the Meuse through August, as the Army of Sambre-and-Meuse awaited the...
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Jourdan's Army of Sambre and Meuse convinced Charles to shift troops to the north, allowing Moreau to cross the Rhine at the Battle of Kehl on 24 June and defeated...
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Jean-Baptiste Kléber (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
served mostly in the Army of Sambre and Meuse on the Rhine frontier. In the winter of 1794–1795 he besieged Mainz. In 1795, and again in 1796, Kléber...
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Régiment de Sambre et Meuse" (English: "Sambre-et-Meuse Regiment") is a French poem by Paul Cézano set to music by Robert Planquette and arranged and expanded...
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Lazare Hoche (category People of the Irish Rebellion of 1798)
to the Rhine frontier as commander of the Army of Sambre and Meuse, where he defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Neuwied on 18 April 1797, though operations...
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French Army of Sambre and Meuse to retreat toward the Rhine. During July 1796, The French Army of Sambre and Meuse, and the Army of the Rhine and Moselle...
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Jean-Baptiste Olivier (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
Jacques Desjardin and Louis Charbonnier fighting on the Sambre River. This new force would soon become known as the Army of Sambre and Meuse under Jourdan...
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chance of a victory here so as to be able to pull out eastwards. After Fleurus, Jourdan's force was formally consolidated as the Army of Sambre and Meuse, and...
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Battle of Neuwied (18 April 1797) saw Lazare Hoche lead part of the French Army of Sambre-et-Meuse against Franz von Werneck's Austrian army. The French...
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Jacob Job Élie (section Storming of the Bastille)
participated in the Battle of Wattignies as part of the larger Army of the North. He was later transferred to the Army of Sambre and Meuse on 2 July 1794. While...
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The Marches of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse are a set of folk marches, taking place from May to October, in Belgium in Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse [fr]. Ancient religious...
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Claude-Étienne Michel (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
shake up of the French infantry, and assigned to the new Army of Germany when it is formed from the armies of 'Sambre and Meuse' and 'Rhine and Moselle'...
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three armies: Army of Sambre-et-Meuse commanded by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan faced the Austrian Army of the Lower Rhine in the north; the Army of Rhin-et-Moselle...
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Charleroi (redirect from Montignies-sur-Sambre / Charleroi)
revolutionary Army of Sambre-et-Meuse under the command of Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, invested Charleroi and won a decisive victory in the ensuing Battle of Fleurus...
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Jean-de-Dieu Soult (redirect from Duke of Dalmatia (French))
needed] After the Battle of Fleurus of 1794, in which he distinguished himself for coolness, he joined the Army of Sambre and Meuse on 28 June. Soult was...
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of Jourdan's Army of Sambre-et-Meuse against Coburg's left flank was the more dangerous thrust because it threatened his army's communications with Austria...
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(the head of navigation) and Charleville-Mézières into Belgium. At Namur it is joined by the Sambre. Beyond Namur the Meuse winds eastwards and passes Liège...
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Jean-Charles Pichegru (category Military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars)
named Army of Sambre-et-Meuse, withstood Austrian attacks in the battle of Fleurus (27 June 1794), which eventually led to Allied evacuation of the Low...
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François Joseph Lefebvre (redirect from Duke of Danzig)
1797, Lefebvre was appointed commander of the Army of Sambre and Meuse. He then commanded the vanguard of the Army of the Danube under Jean-Baptiste Jourdan...
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The Battle of Charleroi (French: Bataille de Charleroi) or the Battle of the Sambre, was fought on 21 August 1914, by the French Fifth Army and the German...
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4th Hussar Regiment (France) (category Hussar regiments of France)
French Army, raised and embodied in 1783 and still in existence. It was created as the hussards Colonel Général on 31 July 1783 for the Duke of Chartres...
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French planned an invasion of southern Germany in 1796. General of Division (MG) Jourdan with the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse would advance from the middle...
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Second Battle of the Sambre (4 November 1918) (which included the Second Battle of Guise (French: 2ème Bataille de Guise) and the Battle of Thiérache (French:...
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tasks: Army of Sambre and Meuse Army of the Rhine and Moselle Army of Rome (formed from the Army of Italy for the French occupation of Rome) Army of England...
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1797 (8 vendémiaire Year VI) by merging the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse and the Army of the Rhine and Moselle and commanded from the decree until 6 October...
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1794. He was then transferred to the Army of Sambre and Meuse on the Rhine, and distinguished himself in the capture of Maastricht. Mortier was tasked by...
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kilometres (41 mi) north of Frankfurt. In the Rhine Campaign of 1796, Jourdan's Army of Sambre-et-Meuse won a foothold on the east bank of the Rhine after defeating...
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de Croix, Count of Clerfayt outmaneuvered the French Republican Army of Sambre-et-Meuse commanded by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan. Although the French attacked...
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