Campaigns of 1794 in the French Revolutionary Wars
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The
First coalition
.
On the
Piedmont failing. On the Spanish border, the French under General Dugommier rallied from their defensive positions at Bayonne and Perpignan, driving the Spanish out of Roussillon and invading Catalonia. Dugommier was killed in the Battle of the Black Mountain
in November.
On the northern front in the
Rhine, occupying Belgium, the Rhineland, and the south of the Netherlands
.
On the middle Rhine front in July General Michaud's Army of the Rhine attempted two offensives in July in the Vosges, the second of which was successful, but not followed up allowing for a Prussian counter-attack in September. Otherwise this sector of the front was largely quiet over the course of the year.
At sea, the French Atlantic Fleet succeeded in holding off a British attempt to interdict a vital cereal
.By the end of the year French armies had won victories on all fronts, and as the year closed they began advancing into the Netherlands.
See also
- Kościuszko Uprising (which some of the allies were involved in suppressing)
- War in the Vendée
References
- ISBN 978-0-415-23984-4.
