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Siege of Thionville (1792) | |||||||
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Part of the War of the First Coalition | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
3,000–5,000 [2] French | 20,000 Austrians [3] 12,000 [4] –16,000 French émigrés | ||||||
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Low | Very heavy | ||||||
Location within Europe |
The siege of Thionville was a battle during the War of the First Coalition. [5]
It began at Thionville on 24 August 1792. A coalition force of 20,000 Austrians and 16,000 French Royalist troops under Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg failed to take the town, commanded by Georges Félix de Wimpffen, and raised the siege on 16 October. One of the French royalist troops was François-René de Chateaubriand, who was wounded in the battle. [6]
In the aftermath of the siege the National Convention declared that Thionville had "deserved well of the fatherland" - it named Place de Thionville and Rue de Thionville in Paris after the victory.
Louis-Emmanuel Nadine created the lyrical drama Siége de Thionville in 1793. [7]
Preceded by Battle of Verdun (1792) | French Revolution: Revolutionary campaigns Siege of Thionville (1792) | Succeeded by Battle of Valmy |