French Revolution first combat - April 28th 1792

French Revolution: First combat between the French Revolutionary Army and the Austrians in the northern French frontier.

[joshuagrover]

Battle of Quiévrain (1792) from April 28th to 30th was actual two battles or skirmishes with the Austrians. The French actually won the first skirmish, and General Biron (later guillotined) planned to advance on Mons and eventually Brussels. However, he judged his forces and wasn't strong enough and decided to retreat. On the 30th of April, While retreating pass Quiévrain the French encountered the Austrians again, and this time fled to Valenciennes in disorder as depicted in the scene.

The French General, who was mentioned as killed by his own troops (next scene) in Lille, was Théobald Dillon after the French loss at the Battle of Marquain on April 29th.

You got to remember this was the French revolutionary army's baptism of fire in these early battles, where they lacked competent professional officers, equipment, and trained troops (trained on the march or in battle). As of later, France's enemies started to respect this rag-tag army, and eventually, the French and Bony were the ones giving the lessons to the Coalition. 😂

[RaiderLeo]

The worse thing for any army to do is to show your back to the enemy! They lost more soldiers during the retreat than they would have if they stood and fight!

[adrir.]

Why do the the Austrians seem to be doing the rebel yell?

[d.s.archer]

Magnificent! However, what movie is this from?

[cedricgrabowski]

Ich find ja geil, dass die Östereichische Kavallerie die klassischen Indianergeräusche macht bei 1:05

[DUKEOFWELLINGTON]

didn't form square but theres still time💀

[kalliaslands]

Seeing the route kind of makes me think the best idea would be just to lie down, probably what a lot of soldiers actually did. You might get trampled but horses are very averse to stepping on bodies.

[mhoadievdelapaz]

I used Revolutionary France Army and Navy in European War 4 and won vs British and Spanish Empires😂

[zyzor]

The Austrians whipped the French that day.

[chrisleach]

You have to give it to the French.
They run almost as fast as the horses