Jean Nicolas Houchard (24 January 1739 – 17 November 1793) was a French General of the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars. Born at Forbach...

the North. Three of his predecessors, Nicolas Luckner, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, and Jean Nicolas Houchard were under arrest and later executed...

France, and resulted in a French victory under General Jean Nicolas Houchard and General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan against the command of Marshal Freytag...

between 30,000 men of the French Army of the North commanded by Jean Nicolas Houchard, and 13,000 Coalition troops: the Veldleger (mobile army) of the...

to block French progress. On 8 November Custine ordered Colonel Jean Nicolas Houchard to assemble all his detachments and to attack the Prussians in Limburg...

North, he delegated some of the responsibility for this plan to Jean Nicolas Houchard (another ill-fated general destined for the guillotine), instructing...

heavy siege artillery. The Armée du Nord, now under command of Jean Nicolas Houchard defeated York's exposed left flank under the Hanoverian general...

de division) Jean Nicolas Houchard (général de division) César Louis Marie François Ange d'Houdetot (général de division) Léonard Jean Aubry Huard de...

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April 1793: Augustin Gabriel d'Aboville 29 April - 2 August 1793: Jean Nicolas Houchard, subordinate – Adam Philippe Custine until May 17, then moved to...

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the French Army of the North under Jean Nicolas Houchard faced the Imperial army of The Prince of Coburg. Houchard's attention was focused on drawing his...

"War Song for the Army of the Rhine"), and dedicated the song to Marshal Nicolas Luckner, a Bavarian in French service. The melody soon became the rallying...

the Army of the North these unfortunates included Nicolas Luckner, Adam Custine, and Jean Houchard. Under Charles François Dumouriez, the Army of the...

would advance on Arlon and capture its Coalition supply magazine. Jean Nicolas Houchard, the commander of the Army of the Moselle agreed to send Amable...

Hanoverians and Hessians. From 6–8 September, the Army of the North under Jean Nicolas Houchard defeated the Dunkirk covering force in the Battle of Hondschoote...

de Beauharnais and the 40,000-strong Army of the Moselle under Jean Nicolas Houchard were poised to march to the relief of Mainz. However, Beauharnais...

2014 Cannes Film Festival. Jean-Luc Cairon (born 1962), gymnast and coach Helmut Fritz (born 1975), singer Jean-Nicolas Houchard (1740–1793), French General...

men killed and wounded. The commander of the Army of the North, Jean Nicolas Houchard was disgusted when he heard of the flight, writing to his superiors...

British. Ernouf assembled a force of a thousand men and joined Jean Nicolas Houchard; together they marched to the relief of Dunkirk. Once there, he...

8,500 infantry and 1,000 cavalry from the Army of the Moselle. Jean Nicolas Houchard, commander of the Army of the Moselle, believed in the same goal...

generals, including the aged Nicolas Luckner, Jean Nicolas Houchard, Adam Philippe Custine, Arthur Dillon and Antoine Nicolas Collier, were killed. Francisco...

of the Jacobins and he was executed by guillotine on 27 August. Jean Nicolas Houchard was selected to replace Custine, but he was not able to assume the...

the city on October 18. On that night, the vanguard of General Jean Nicolas Houchard reached Weisenau. ...One of our columns ... marched to within cannon...

October 18. On the night of October 18, the vanguard of General Jean Nicolas Houchard reached Weisenau. "On the 19th, the army corps arrived in sight...

Philippe Custine and Jean Nicolas Houchard sent to the guillotine. In desperation, the representatives on mission selected Jean Pascal Carlenc, a good...

generals, including the aged Nicolas Luckner, Jean Nicolas Houchard, Adam Philippe Custine, Arthur Dillon and Antoine Nicolas Collier, were killed. Francisco...

In September, Nicolas Houchard defeated the Duke of York at Hondschoote, forcing him to abandon the siege of Dunkirk. In October Jean-Baptiste Jourdan...

of the Rhine River. In the spring of 1793 the 1st Vosges was in Jean Nicolas Houchard's 1st Brigade of Joseph Victorin Nevinger's Left Wing near Bingen...

September, he was on a mission to the northern army, where he arrested General Houchard, who he considered to be a "creature and successor of Custine's" who had...