Siege of Thionville (1792)

The siege of Thionville was a battle during the War of the First Coalition.^[5]

Siege of Thionville (1792)
Part of the War of the First Coalition
Print of the 1792 siege of Thionville
Date 24 August – 16 October 1792[1] Location Thionville, France 49.3589°N 6.1692°E / 49.3589; 6.1692 Result French victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of the French (until 21 September)  French First Republic	Habsburg Realm Armée des Émigrés
Commanders and leaders
Georges Félix de Wimpffen	Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg
Strength
3,000–5,000[2] French	20,000 Austrians[3] 12,000[4]–16,000 French émigrés
Casualties and losses
Low	Very heavy
Location within Europe

Siege

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]

Aftermath

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.

Legacy

Louis-Emmanuel Nadine created the lyrical drama Siége de Thionville in 1793.^[7]

Notes

1. Luehe 1841, p. 130.
2. Austria. K.u.k. Kriegsarchiv 1895, p. 39.
3. Luehe 1841, p. 129.
4. Minutoli 1847, p. 122.
5. Baines 1818, pp. 38–39.
6. Leggewie 1990, p. 11.
7. Nadine 1793.

References

• Baines, Edward (1818). History of the wars of the French revolution, from the breaking out of the war, in 1792, to the restoration of a general peace in 1815; comprehending the civil history of Great Britain and France, during that period. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
• Leggewie, Robert (1990). Anthologie de la littérature française, Tome II (3rd ed.).
• Nadine, Louis-Emmanuel (1793). Siége de Thionville. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
• Luehe (1841). Militair-Conversations-Lexikon. Vol. 8. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
• Minutoli, Johann Heinrich Carl von (1847). Der Feldzug der Verbündeten in Frankreich im Jahre 1792. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
• Austria. K.u.k. Kriegsarchiv (1895). Mittheilungen des K.u.K. Kriegs-Archivs. Vol. 9. Retrieved 5 July 2022.

External links

• Media related to Siège de Thionville (1792) at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded by Battle of Verdun (1792)

French Revolution: Revolutionary campaigns Siege of Thionville (1792)

Succeeded by Battle of Valmy