Army of Sambre and Meuse
The Army of Sambre and Meuse was one of the armies of the French Revolution. It was formed on 29 June 1794 by combining the Army of the Ardennes, the left wing of the Army. After an inconclusive campaign in 1795, the French planned a co-ordinated offensive in 1796. Internal disputes between Jean-Baptiste Jourdan and his superior, Jean Victor Moreau, prevented the two armies from uniting. In September 1797, the armies merged to become the army of Germany.
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The Army of Sambre and Meuse was one of the armies of the French Revolution. It was formed on 29 June 1794 by combining the Army of the Ardennes, the left wing of the Army. After an inconclusive campaign in 1795, the French planned a co-ordinated offensive in 1796. Internal disputes between Jean-Baptiste Jourdan and his superior, Jean Victor Moreau, prevented the two armies from uniting. By the end of September 1796, Archduke Charles had permanently separated the two French armies. On 29 September 1797, the armies merged to become the army of Germany. French and Coalition military strategy focused on the Rhine river as the principle line of defense. The Rhine River flows west along the border between the German states and the Swiss Cantons. It cuts through steep hills, and moves in torrents in pids at rapids at the High High. Construction of a canal to control the water level occurred between 1817 and 1875. In the 20th century, the passage from Iffezheim to Basel was corrected from the level of 1790 to 1974. In 1790s, the river looked different in the 20s than it does in the twenty-first century; it does not look the same in the 21st century as it did in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It now cuts through a narrow valley bordered by the Black Forest on the east and the Vosges mountains on the west. The river makes a wide, northerly turn, in what is what is now called the knee and ditch, in the turn of what is called the so-called Rhine Valley.
It also cuts through what is known as the High and High High, in northern Germany, and in southern Switzerland. It is the source of the River Rhine, which runs through the town of Laufenburg and the city of Basel in the Swiss canton of Ausserrhoden. The French army lost some effectiveness during the Reign of Terror, during which its generals were intimidated or executed and many of the army’s experienced officers left France for safer havens. French émigrés continued to agitate for support of a counter-revolution, and on 20 April 1792 the French National Convention declared war on Austria. In this War of the First Coalition, France ranged itself against most of the European states sharing its land or water borders, plus Portugal and the Ottoman Empire. Leopold succeeded his brother Joseph as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; by 1791, the danger to his sister, Marie Antoinette and her children, alarmed him. The Declaration of Pillnitz articulated that the interests of the monarchs of Europe were as one with the interest of Louis and his family. He and his fellow monarchs threatened unspecified consequences if anything should happen to the royal family. Shortly after Fleurus, the position of the first Coalition in Flanders collapsed and the French armies overran the Austrian Netherlands and the Dutch Republic.
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