Siege of Thionville (1792)

The siege of Thionville was a battle during the War of the First Coalition.^[5]

Siege of Thionville (1792)
Part of the War of the First Coalition
Print of the 1792 siege of Thionville
Date 24 August – 16 October 1792[1] Location Thionville, France 49.3589°N 6.1692°E / 49.3589; 6.1692 Result French victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of the French (until 21 September) French First Republic	Habsburg Realm Armée des Émigrés
Commanders and leaders
Georges Félix de Wimpffen	Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg
Strength
3,000–5,000[2] French	20,000 Austrians[3] 12,000[4]–16,000 French émigrés
Casualties and losses
Low	Very heavy
Location within Europe

Siege

It began at Thionville on 24 August 1792. A coalition force of 20,000 Austrians and 16,000 French Royalist troops under Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg failed to take the town, commanded by Georges Félix de Wimpffen, and raised the siege on 16 October. One of the French royalist troops was François-René de Chateaubriand, who was wounded in the battle.^[6]

Aftermath

In the aftermath of the siege the National Convention declared that Thionville had "deserved well of the fatherland" - it named Place de Thionville and Rue de Thionville in Paris after the victory.

Legacy

Louis-Emmanuel Nadine created the lyrical drama Siége de Thionville in 1793.^[7]