Second Battle of Boulou (29 April to 1 May 1794) took place during the War of the Pyrenees, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. This battle saw the...
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The First Battle of Boulou (3–4 October and 14–15 October 1793) saw a Republican French army led by Eustache Charles d'Aoust attack a Spanish Royal army...
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town of Le Boulou is located in the canton of Vallespir-Albères and in the arrondissement of Céret, in the south of Pyrénées-Orientales. The name of the...
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Jacques François Dugommier (category French military personnel of the Seven Years' War)
of Boulou on 1 May, which led to the recovery of Roussillon. Port-Vendres was evacuated by La Unión (who had under his command 400 French noblemen of the...
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Jerónimo Girón-Moctezuma, Marquis de las Amarillas (category Marquesses of Spain)
Le Boulou with a strongpoint at Montesquieu-des-Albères in the Pyrenees foothills to the east. On 29 April, the first day of the Battle of Boulou, the...
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Dagobert at the Battle of Truillas before he fell back to the Tech Valley. Ricardos repulsed d'Aoust at Le Boulou on 3 October. The Battle of the Tech (Pla...
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Charles-Pierre Augereau (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
became a divisional commander and played a significant role at the Battle of Boulou from 29 April to 1 May, where his feint attacks lured the Spanish Army...
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The French victory in the Battle of Boulou on 1 May caused the Spanish army to withdraw south of the Pyrenees. The recapture of Collioure occurred on 29...
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During his five years as a Marshal of the Empire (1809–1814), Nicolas-Charles Oudinot received seven of a total of 34 battle wounds suffered throughout his...
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Jean-Baptiste Bessières (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
situation of the war with Spain with a major victory at the Battle of Boulou, in 1794, with the Army of the Pyrenees under the command of General Jacques...
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camp in early October at the First Battle of Boulou. On 11 October 1793, Louis Marie Turreau arrived to take command of the army. Turreau was shocked at...
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Army, Battle of Boulou, 30 April [1794]". Fort Leavenworth, KS: United States Army Combined Arms Center: Nafziger Collection of Orders of Battle. Retrieved...
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Pierre Banel (section War of the Pyrenees)
promotion to general of brigade on 25 December 1793, though it was not confirmed until 13 June 1795. Banel fought at the Second Battle of Boulou on 30 April–1...
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Guillaume Mirabel (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
a brigade at Second Boulou in May 1794. A promising leader, Mirabel was killed in action while leading his troops at the Battle of Sant Llorenç de la Muga...
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1485 – Wars of the Roses Battle of Boulou – 1794 – French Revolutionary Wars Battle of Bouvines – 1214 – Anglo-French War (1202–14) Battle of Boyacá – 1819...
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defeated their adversaries at the Battle of Boulou on 1 May. Immediately after their victory, they pushed the Allied army south of the Pyrenees and invested both...
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The Battle of Tourcoing (17–18 May 1794) saw a Republican French army directed by General of Division Joseph Souham defend against an attack by a Coalition...
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Second Battle of Boulou 29 April-1 May - French victory over Spain and Portugal Battle of Gonaïves 29 April-5 May - French victory over Spain Action of 5 May...
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led the Spanish right wing at the Battle of the Black Mountain in 1794 and covered the retreat at the Battle of Boulou. Vives skirmished with the French...
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André de La Barre (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
opened the Second Battle of Boulou by threatening the Spanish left, then threw the main weight of his attack into the gap. On the morning of 30 April 1794...
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Jean Joseph Guieu (category French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
promoted general of brigade. From 29 April to 1 May 1794, he led a brigade under Augereau at the Battle of Boulou. He also fought at the Battle of the Black...
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April 29–May 1 – Battle of Boulou: The French defeat the Spanish and Portuguese forces. May 7 – Robespierre establishes the Cult of the Supreme Being...
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Andrés Pérez de Herrasti (category Spanish commanders of the Napoleonic Wars)
siege of Gibraltar until 1783. Promoted two years later to lieutenant, he saw action at the siege of Oran in 1791 and, from April 1793, in the War of the...
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Luis Fermín de Carvajal, Conde de la Unión (category Military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars killed in battle)
Unión at the Battle of Boulou, forcing the Spanish army south of the Pyrenees. The French recaptured the port of Collioure at the end of May, and blockaded...
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Pierre François Sauret (category Members of the Council of Five Hundred)
troops in the French victory at the Battle of Boulou on 30 April and 1 May 1794. His troops, including the brigades of Jean-François Micas, Louis Pelletier...
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chronological list of the battles involving France in modern history. These lists do not include the battles of the French civil wars (as the Wars of Religion,...
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Juan Miguel de Vives (category Military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars)
led a division against the French in the War of the Pyrenees. He led his division at the battles of Boulou and the Black Mountain in the eastern Pyrenees...
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Louis Pierre Jean Cassan (category Commanders of the Legion of Honour)
joined a volunteer battalion as a captain. In 1794 he fought at Boulou during the War of the Pyrenees. After transferring to Italy, he served at Millesimo...
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Firmin de Carvajal, Conde de la Union was given command of the Allied army. The Battle of Boulou from 30 April to 1 May 1794 was a French victory. The Spanish...
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Étienne Charlet (category French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
Second Battle of Boulou or for the Battle of the Black Mountain. However, the French Cerdagne division was practically independent of the Army of the Eastern...
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