THE BATTLE OF FLEURUS, 26 JUNE 1794
THE BATTLE OF FLEURUS, 26 JUNE 1794

THE BATTLE OF FLEURUS, 26 JUNE 1794

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June 1794. The forces of the Republic, following the victory at Tourcoing and the capture of the fortress of Luxembourg, were now attempting to bring down the coalition whose principal forces were supplied by Austria. But what remained of the Austrian Netherlands resisted vigorously, under the command of the Prince of Saxe-Coburg. In Paris, the orders of the Committee of Public Safety were unambiguous: conquer or die, and Robespierre was determined to be obeyed. A defeated general was a dead general. This was the era of the Terror. The Representatives of the People with the armies, Saint-Just and Le Bas, also had a score to settle with their colleague Carnot, the architect of the victory at Tourcoing who had grown too influential within the Committee. A major victory was needed, for arrayed against the French were Austrians, English, and Dutch — as well as Frenchmen wearing the white cockade. The Battle of Fleurus would deliver them a double victory: the prestigious one of arms, and the symbolic, political one of the Republic, which made the memory of the royal victory of 1690 on that same battlefield effectively "disappear".
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