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Oct 10, 2014 · The zenith of comital power and prestige was reached under Count Philip d’Alsace (1168-91, co-ruler with his father from 1157), who ruled much of Picardy, by right of his wife, as well as Flanders. Godfather of King Philip II (Augustus) of France, he was the young king’s guardian in 1179-80, after King Louis VII was paralysed by a stroke.
- Armée de Sambre-et-Meuse
- Third Siege of Charleroi
- Preparations
- Battle of Fleurus
- Combat on The French Left & Center
- Aftermath & Significance
- Conclusion
The French victory at the Battle of Tourcoing (17-18 May 1794) led to a power shift in the Flanders campaign as the Coalition army was forced on the defensive. The morale of the Allied army, already negatively impacted by the defeat itself, worsened on 30 May when the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II abandoned the army and returned to Vienna. The defe...
The Prince of Orange, feeling confident in his victory, was certain the enemy had been decisively beaten and would not be foolhardy enough to cross the Sambre a fifth time. When Jourdan proved him wrong after a mere two-day respite, Orange was shocked, but still could not believe the French were mad enough to attack Charleroi again; surely, he reas...
Coburg, the Allied commander-in-chief, had arrived at Charleroi under the assumption that the garrison could hold out for a few more days. To inform the garrison that help was coming, he sent some troops to the heights of Heppignies to fire rockets into the sky as a signal. However, these men were chased off by perceptive French soldiers and were f...
By 3 a.m. on 26 June 1794, the Allied columns were in motion, descending on the French positions. By 5:30 a.m., the predawn silence around Fleurus was shattered by the crack of musket fire as Archduke Charles' column encountered Lefebvre's division. Fierce fighting in and around Fleurus was echoed further to the right, where Beaulieu's column engag...
Although the most dramatic fighting occurred on the French right flank, there were simultaneous actions along the French left and center. At 1 a.m., 24 battalions under the Prince of Orange began to advance against the French left but were stopped by a French division under General Montaigu at Courcelles. At 9 a.m., Montaigu pulled back across the ...
As the battle wore on during the afternoon of 26 June, Coburg received confirmation that Charleroi had, indeed, already fallen. Dismayed, he ordered a general retreat at around 5 p.m. and chose not to continue the battle the next morning. Like his emperor, Coburg may have come to the conclusion that the Austrian Netherlands were not worth the blood...
The Battle of Fleurus may not be as well-remembered as Napoleon's Italian Campaign or the Battle of Valmy, but it deserves mention among the most important battles of the French Revolutionary Wars. As mentioned above, it greatly impacted the outcome of the War of the First Coalition and helped change the course of the French Revolution by contribut...
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The western districts of Flanders came finally under French rule under successive treaties of 1659 (Artois), 1668, and 1678. Providing a little more detail, the County of Flanders was an affluent part of West Francia and, subsequently, mediæval France, with several prominent trade ports on the Scheldt.
Up to 1477, the core area under French suzerainty was west of the Scheldt and was called "Royal Flanders" (Dutch: Kroon-Vlaanderen, French: Flandre royale ). Aside from this, the counts, from the 11th century onward, held land east of the river as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire: "Imperial Flanders" ( Rijks-Vlaanderen or Flandre impériale ).
Its lands are now included in the French département of Nord, the Belgian provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders, and the Dutch province of Zeeland. Ruled by Baldwin I in 862, Flanders began to grow as a commercial centre, fostered by its strategic location between the Mediterranean Sea and the Scandinavian and Baltic countries.
May 9, 2018 · Flanders. Flanders a region in the south-western part of the Low Countries, now divided between Belgium (where it forms the provinces of East and West Flanders), France, and the Netherlands. It was a powerful medieval principality and the scene of prolonged fighting during the First World War, when Allied troops held the sector of the Western ...
1346 - 1384: Louis II of Mâle: 1384 - 1405: Margaret of Mâle: Dau. m Philip the Bold of Burgundy (1368).: 1405: Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, had married Margaret of Mâle in 1368, and in 1384 she becomes countess of Flanders and one of the richest heiresses in Europe, thereby passing the county into the hands of the dukes of Burgundy where it remains after Philip's death.
