- "Army of the Rhine" and "Army Of The Rhine" redirect here. For the British Army force of that name, see British Army of the Rhine.
The Army of the Rhine (Armée du Rhin) is the overall name for one of the main French Revolutionary armies, that operating in the German theatre along the River Rhine.
An army of the Bourbon Restoration, along with an army of the Second French Empire (engaged in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, including the battle of Sedan), also bore this name.
Related people
People known to have served in this Armée include:
- general Baraguey d'Hilliers
- general Custine
- Antoine Marie Chamans de Lavalette
- The utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1794-1795)
- general Victor Claude Alexandre Fanneau de Lahorie
- general Louis-Théobald Ihler
- general François-Joseph Offenstein
Source
- This page is a translation of its French equivalent.
- C. Clerget : Tableaux des armées françaises pendant les guerres de la Révolution (Librairie militaire 1905) ;
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