The Battle of Famars was fought on 23 May 1793 during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. An Allied Austrian, Hanoverian, and British...
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Famars (French pronunciation: [famaʁs] ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Communes of the Nord department Battle of Famars (1793)...
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Ça Ira (category Songs of the French Revolution)
this song. At the 1793 Battle of Famars, the 14th Regiment of Foot, the West Yorkshire Regiment, attacked the French to the music of "Ça ira" (the colonel...
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The Battle of Neerwinden (18 March 1793) saw a Republican French army led by Charles François Dumouriez attack a Coalition army commanded by Prince Josias...
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Anglo-Hanoverian forces saw their debut action at the Battle of Famars. In the same region of the Pas-de-Calais, the French, now under François Joseph...
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notable success at the Battle of Beaumont in April and another at the Battle of Willems in May but was defeated at the Battle of Tourcoing later that month...
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in a Spanish victory. Battle of Famars or Valenciennes (1793), fought on 23 May, was a First Coalition victory on the borders of France which prepared...
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began planning the investment of Valenciennes, which resulted in the Battle of Famars. Footnotes Presumably this was Desponches' column, though Fortescue...
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is a list of sieges, land and naval battles of the War of the First Coalition (20 April 1792 – 18 October 1797). It includes the battles of: the Low Countries...
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West Yorkshire Regiment (redirect from 14th (Buckinghamshire, The Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot)
1794, for which they were subsequently granted the battle honour 'Tournay'. At the Battle of Famars, in order to encourage the men, Lieutenant-Colonel...
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May 23 (category Days of the year)
Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies. 1788 – South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1793 – Battle of Famars during the...
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Regiment of (Light) Dragoons in 1769. The regiment landed at Ostend in May 1793 for service in the Flanders Campaign and fought at the Battle of Famars in May...
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Wenzel Joseph von Colloredo (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
fortified camp. Colloredo was not involved in the 8 May fighting. In the Battle of Famars on 23 May, Coburg attacked the French army with two main columns and...
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Republicans Battle of Palluau 15 May - French Republicans defeat French Royalists Battle of Mas Deu 17–19 May - Spanish victory over France Battle of Famars 23...
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the Battle of Famars on 23 May, and lay siege to Valenciennes. Many of the French who had been driven from Famars took refuge in the fortified town of Valenciennes...
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the Battle of Famars in May 1793, the Siege of Valenciennes in June 1793 and the Siege of Dunkirk in August 1793. It also took part in the Siege of Nieuwpoort...
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Anton Ferdinand Mittrowsky (category Austrian people of Czech descent)
Colloredo. At the Battle of Famars on 23 May 1793, Mittrowsky led the Callenberg regiment in the 1st Main Column under Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany...
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in battle on 8 May at the Battle of Raismes near Valenciennes. Under François Joseph Drouot de Lamarche, the army lost again at the Battle of Famars on...
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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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Patrick Tytler (British Army officer) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
in the Battle of Cambray and Battle of Famars in May 1793. He was soon after promoted to Colonel in Lord Elgin's Fencibles. He was Fort Major of Stirling...
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in the Battle of Focșani (1 August 1789). Having completely beaten the main Ottoman army under Grand Vizier Koca Yusuf Pasha in the Battle of Rymnik,...
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Revolutionary France. The 1st Battalion took part in the Battle of Famars on 23 May and the Siege of Valenciennes (1793) which began that same month, with...
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William Wynyard (British Army officer) (category British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
1793, the Battle of Famars also in May 1793, the Siege of Valenciennes in June 1793, the Battle of Lincelles in August 1793, the Siege of Dunkirk in...
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Éloi Laurent Despeaux (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
day were not given. The French were defeated by the Coalition in the Battle of Famars on 23 May 1793. After greatly distinguishing himself and suffering...
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Dragoons and the 3rd Dragoon Guards. He saw action at the Battle of Famars and the Siege of Valenciennes in 1793, and in later skirmishes was seriously...
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Charles Wade Thornton (category British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
wounded at the Battle of Famars and lost an arm during the Battle of Lannoy during the Flanders campaign the following year. He rose to the rank of captain in...
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French expedition to Sardinia (redirect from Capture of San Pietro and Sant'Antioco)
campaign fought in 1793 in the Mediterranean Sea in the first year of the War of the First Coalition, during the French Revolutionary Wars. The operation...
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Samuel Hulse (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
August 1792, Hulse commanded the 1st Battalion at the Battle of Famars in May 1793 and the Siege of Dunkirk in August 1793 during the Flanders Campaign...
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Henry Bayly (British Army officer, born 1769) (category British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
October 1790. While holding the flag, he suffered a hand injury at the Battle of Lincelles on 17 August 1793, and was promoted to Lieutenant in the Guards...
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Flanders in 1793, and was present at the Battle of Famars, the sieges of Valenciennes and Dunkirk, and the battle of Lincelles. In 1794 he was promoted to...
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