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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
Location	Thionville, France49°21′32″N 6°10′09″E / 49.3589°N 6.1692°E
Result	French victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of the French (until 21 September); French First Republic	Austria; Armée des Émigrés
Commanders and leaders
Georges Félix de Wimpffen	Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg
Strength
3,000 – 5000 French	20,000 Austrians; 12,000-16,000 French émigrés
	class=notpageimage\| Location within Europe

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

Siege edit

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 edit

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 edit

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

Notes edit

^ Luehe 1841, p. 130.
^ Austria. K.u.k. Kriegsarchiv 1895, p. 39.
^ Luehe 1841, p. 129.
^ Minutoli 1847, p. 122.
^ Baines 1818, pp. 38–39.
^ Leggewie 1990, p. 11.
^ Nadine 1793.

References edit

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.