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To declare war had always been a [[prerogative]] of the king. On 1 February Brissot declared war against Britain and the Dutch Republic. [[Francesco de Miranda|Miranda]], [[Henri Christian Michel de Stengel|de Stengel]], [[Jean-Baptiste Cyrus de Valence|Valence]], <!--René Joseph de Lanoue, Joseph Miaczinski, Devaux, Lescuye--> and [[John Skey Eustace|Eustace]] northeast; Dumouriez, and [[Auguste Marie Henri Picot de Dampierre|Dampierre]] went |
To declare war had always been a [[prerogative]] of the king. On 1 February Brissot declared war against Britain and the Dutch Republic. The next day [[Francesco de Miranda|Miranda]] gave the command of the French forces back to Dumouriez.<!--<ref>https://www.worldstatesmen.org/Belgium.html</ref>--> Miranda, [[Henri Christian Michel de Stengel|de Stengel]], [[Jean-Baptiste Cyrus de Valence|Valence]], <!--René Joseph de Lanoue, Joseph Miaczinski, Devaux, Lescuye--> and [[John Skey Eustace|Eustace]] went northeast; Dumouriez, and [[Auguste Marie Henri Picot de Dampierre|Dampierre]] went northwest. <!--[[Louis-Alexandre Berthier|Berthier]] stayed at the border?--> Although Dumouriez advised the government, simply to recognise Belgium's independence, the Jacobins sent agents, tasked with preparing the annexation. Danton was one of them. Dumouriez wanted to install a non-Jacobean rule in the Netherlands but by mid-February [[Lazare Carnot]] proposed that annexation <!--of the area south and west of the Rhine, seen as a natural border-->be undertaken on behalf of French interests whether or not the people to be annexed so wished.<ref>P. Howe (2018) Foreign Policy and the French Revolution, p. 154</ref> On 16 February 1793, the French troops crossed the Dutch border. Breda, [[Klundert]], and [[Geertruidenberg]] were occupied with an army that lacked almost everything. After the French lost Venlo, the [[Battle of Aldenhoven (1793)]], Aachen, [[Siege of Maastricht (1793)|Maastricht]] and the supply at Liège,<ref>"Chapter 16. Robespierre’s Putsch ( June 1793)". Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, pp. 420-449. [https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400849994-019]</ref> Dumouriez decided to return to Bruxelles rather than entering Holland.<ref>Patricia Chastain Howe (2008) Foreign policy and the French Revolution. Charles-Francois Doyle, Pierre Lebrun, and the Belgian Plan, 1789-1793. Palgrave Macmillan, London, p. 159</ref> <!--The population of the [[Austrian Netherlands]] was in insurrection against the French invasion.--> The situation was alarming.<ref>Howe, P.C. (2008). Endgame, March–December 1793, p. 159, 172. In: Foreign Policy and the French Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230616882_11</ref> Miranda, responsible for some of the losses, wrote Dumouriez to continue his plan and not return to Belgium.<ref>[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k204747p.pdf Dumouriez par [[Arthur Chuquet]], p. 164]</ref> On 8 March, Dumouriez was ordered by the "Conseil Executive" to cease further invasion preparations. This was completely contrary to his plan de campagne.<ref>Joost Rosendaal (2003) Bataven!: Nederlandse vluchtelingen in Frankrijk 1787-1795, p. 393</ref> |
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On 11 March, Dumouriez addressed the Brussels assembly, apologizing for the actions of the French commissioners and looting soldiers.<ref>P.C. Howe, p. 160</ref> On 12 March Dumouriez wrote an angry, insolent letter which is considered as a "declaration of war on the Convention". He criticized the interference of officials of the War Ministry which employed many Jacobins.<ref>I. Davidson, p. 108, 150</ref> He attacked not only [[Jean-Nicolas Pache|Pache]], the former minister of war, but also Marat and Robespierre.<ref>[https://books.google.nl/books?id=MN-vXtoOXokC&pg=PT3&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q=robespierre&f=false Sampson Perry (1796) An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution. Band 2, p. 377]</ref> Meanwhile Danton initiated the creation of the [[Revolutionary Tribunal]] to interrogate the generals. Dumouriez had long been unable to agree with the course of the Convention. He was disenchanted with the radicalization of the revolution and its politics and put an end to the annexation efforts.<ref>P.C. Howe, p. 162</ref> On 18 March 1793, Dumouriez's army attacked the Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands and the brother of the Austrian emperor, [[Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen|Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]]'s army. A major defeat in the [[Battle of Neerwinden (1793)|Battle of Neerwinden]] nearly ended the French invasion. After a second defeat near Leuven on 21 March. On 22 March Dumouriez opened negotiations with the Austrian General Mack. He would negotiate peace, dissolve the convention, to restore the [[French Constitution of 1791]], the restoration of a [[constitutional monarchy]] and to free Marie-Antoinette and her children.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T2c-aPE3dCsC&q=dumouriez+restore+monarchy+1794&pg=PA151|title=Radicalism and Reform in Britain, 1780–1850|first=J. R.|last=Dinwiddy|date=1 July 1992|publisher=A&C Black|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0-8264-3453-1}}</ref><ref>[https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/patricia-chastain-howe-foreign-policy-and-the-french-revolution-charles-franccca7ois-dumouriez-pierre-lebrun-and-the-belgian-plan-1789-1793-2008.pdf, P.C. Howe (1982) Foreign Policy and the French Revolution, p. 175-176]</ref> They allowed Dumouriez to retreat to Brussels; his soldiers deserting in large numbers. The next day Dumouriez promised the Austrians he would leave Belgium by 30 March. (N.B. He had no permission and was without approval of the convention.<ref>P.C. Howe, p. 164, 166</ref>) On 25 March Dumouriez asked [[Karl Mack]] his support to march on the capital. He urged [[Louis Philippe I|the Duke of Chartres]], still a teenager, to join his plan. |
On 11 March, Dumouriez addressed the Brussels assembly, apologizing for the actions of the French commissioners and looting soldiers.<ref>P.C. Howe, p. 160</ref> On 12 March Dumouriez wrote an angry, insolent letter which is considered as a "declaration of war on the Convention". He criticized the interference of officials of the War Ministry which employed many Jacobins.<ref>I. Davidson, p. 108, 150</ref> He attacked not only [[Jean-Nicolas Pache|Pache]], the former minister of war, but also Marat and Robespierre.<ref>[https://books.google.nl/books?id=MN-vXtoOXokC&pg=PT3&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q=robespierre&f=false Sampson Perry (1796) An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution. Band 2, p. 377]</ref> Meanwhile Danton initiated the creation of the [[Revolutionary Tribunal]] to interrogate the generals. Dumouriez had long been unable to agree with the course of the Convention. He was disenchanted with the radicalization of the revolution and its politics and put an end to the annexation efforts.<ref>P.C. Howe, p. 162</ref> On 18 March 1793, Dumouriez's army attacked the Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands and the brother of the Austrian emperor, [[Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen|Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]]'s army. A major defeat in the [[Battle of Neerwinden (1793)|Battle of Neerwinden]] nearly ended the French invasion. After a second defeat near Leuven on 21 March. On 22 March Dumouriez opened negotiations with the Austrian General Mack. He would negotiate peace, dissolve the convention, to restore the [[French Constitution of 1791]], the restoration of a [[constitutional monarchy]] and to free Marie-Antoinette and her children.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T2c-aPE3dCsC&q=dumouriez+restore+monarchy+1794&pg=PA151|title=Radicalism and Reform in Britain, 1780–1850|first=J. R.|last=Dinwiddy|date=1 July 1992|publisher=A&C Black|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0-8264-3453-1}}</ref><ref>[https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/patricia-chastain-howe-foreign-policy-and-the-french-revolution-charles-franccca7ois-dumouriez-pierre-lebrun-and-the-belgian-plan-1789-1793-2008.pdf, P.C. Howe (1982) Foreign Policy and the French Revolution, p. 175-176]</ref> They allowed Dumouriez to retreat to Brussels; his soldiers deserting in large numbers. The next day Dumouriez promised the Austrians he would leave Belgium by 30 March. (N.B. He had no permission and was without approval of the convention.<ref>P.C. Howe, p. 164, 166</ref>) On 25 March Dumouriez asked [[Karl Mack]] his support to march on the capital. He urged [[Louis Philippe I|the Duke of Chartres]], still a teenager, to join his plan. <!--On 26 March he met at Tournai three Jacobins according to Madelin.--> |
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The French armies took positions behind the frontier. The ''Army of Holland'' deployed near [[Lille]], the ''[[Army of the Ardennes]]'' at [[Maulde]], the ''[[Army of the North (France)|Army of the North]]'' |
The French armies took positions behind the frontier. The ''Army of Holland'' deployed near [[Lille]], the ''[[Army of the Ardennes]]'' at [[Maulde]], the ''[[Army of the North (France)|Army of the North]]'' at [[Saint-Amand-les-Eaux|Saint-Amand]], and the ''Army of Belgium'' at [[Condé-sur-l'Escaut]] and [[Valenciennes]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Phipps, Ramsay Weston|author-link=Ramsay Weston Phipps|year=2011 |title=The Armies of the First French Republic: Volume I The Armée du Nord |publisher=Pickle Partners Publishing |location=USA |isbn=978-1-908692-24-5 |pages=155–157 }}</ref> |
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Charles François Dumouriez | |
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Born | 26 January 1739 Cambrai, Kingdom of France |
Died | 14 March 1823 Turville, United Kingdom | (aged 84)
Buried | |
Allegiance | Kingdom of France Kingdom of France French First Republic Kingdom of Great Britain United Kingdom |
Service/ | French Army French Army British Army |
Years of service | 1758–1814 |
Rank | Divisional general |
Battles/wars | Seven Years' War French conquest of Corsica War of the Bar Confederation Peninsular War |
Awards | Order of Saint Louis Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe |
Other work | Minister of War |
Signature |
Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl fʁɑ̃swa dy peʁje dymuʁje], 26 January 1739 – 14 March 1823) was a French military officer, diplomat and statesman who became general during the French Revolutionary Wars. He shared with General François Christophe Kellermann the first French victory at Valmy where the Prussian army was forced to draw back. He rapidly advanced north (till Moerdijk) but decided to return to Brussels when the French armies lost territory in Belgium. He disagreed with the radical Convention and deputies on the annexation of the country. Early April 1793 he deserted the Revolutionary Army. Dumouriez defected to the Austrians after he refused to surrender himself to the recently installed Revolutionary Tribunal.[1][2] He became a royalist intriguer during the reign of Napoleon as well as an adviser to the British government.
Early life
Dumouriez was born in Cambrai, on the Scheldt River in northern France, to parents of noble rank. His father, Antoine-François du Périer, served as a commissary of the royal army, and educated his son most carefully and widely. The boy continued his studies in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and in 1757 began his military career as a volunteer in the campaign of Rossbach, where he served as a cornet in the Régiment d'Escars. He received a commission for good conduct in action, and served in the later German campaigns of the Seven Years' War with distinction (receiving 22 wounds); but at the peace he was retired as a captain, with a small pension and the cross of St Louis.[3]
Dumouriez then visited Italy and Corsica, Spain and Portugal, and his memoranda to the duc de Choiseul on Corsican affairs at the time of the Corsican Republic led to his re-employment on the staff of the French expeditionary corps sent to the island, for which he gained the rank of lieutenant-colonel.[3] In 1767 Choiseul gave Dumouriez a military command as deputy quartermaster general to the Army of Corsica under the Marquis de Chauvelin.[citation needed] After this, he became a member of the Secret du Roi, the secret service under Louis XV, which gave full scope to his diplomatic skills. In 1770 he undertook a mission into Poland to the Confederation of Bar, where, in addition to his political business, he organized a Polish militia for the War of the Bar Confederation.[3] On 23 May, his Polish soldiers were smashed by the Russian forces of General Alexander Suvorov in the Battle of Lanckorona. The fall of Choiseul (1770) brought about Dumouriez's recall. In 1772, upon returning to Paris, Dumouriez sought a military position from the marquis de Monteynard, Secretary of State for War, who gave him a staff position with the regiment of Lorraine writing diplomatic and military reports. In 1773, he found himself imprisoned in the Bastille for six months, apparently for diverting funds intended for the employment of secret agents into the payment of personal debts. During his six months of captivity Dumouriez occupied himself with literary pursuits. He was then removed to Caen, where he remained in detention until the accession of Louis XVI in 1774. Dumouriez was then recalled to Paris and assigned to posts in Lille and Boulogne-sur-Mer by the comte de Saint-Germain, the new king's minister of war.
Upon his release, Dumouriez married his cousin, a certain Mademoiselle de Broissy. In the meantime, Dumouriez had turned his attention to the internal state of his own country, and amongst the very numerous memoranda which he sent to the government was a project on the defence of Normandy and Cherbourg navy port, which procured for him in 1778 the post of commandant of Cherbourg.[4] He administered with much success for more than ten years.[5] The construction of the fortifications and dikes began in 1779/1782 and extended in 1786. Even the King came to see it. For his ingenuity in fortifying he became a maréchal de camp in 1788, and commander of the National Guard in July 1789, but his ambition was not satisfied.[3] He proved a neglectful and unfaithful husband, and in 1789 the couple separated. Madame Dumouriez took refuge in a convent.
Political career
At the outbreak of the Revolution, seeing the opportunity for carving out a new career, he went to Paris, where he joined the Jacobin Club. The death of Mirabeau, to whose fortunes he had attached himself, proved a great blow. However, opportunity arose again when, in his capacity as a lieutenant-general and the commandant of Nantes, he offered to march to the assistance of the National Constituent Assembly after the royal family's unsuccessful flight to Varennes.[3]
In 1790, Dumouriez was appointed French military advisor to the newly established independent Belgian government and remained dedicated to the cause of an independent Belgian Republic. Minister of War, Louis Lebègue Duportail, promoted Dumouriez from president of the War Council to major-general in June 1791 and attached him to the Twelfth Division, which was commanded by General Jacques Alexis de Verteuil.
He then attached himself to the Girondist party and, on 15 March 1792, became the French minister of foreign affairs. Dumouriez was friendly with Armand Gensonné, then selected Lebrun-Tondu as his first officer for Belgian and Liégeois affairs. The relationship between the Girondists and Dumouriez was not based on ideology, but rather based on the practical benefit it gave to both parties. Dumouriez needed people in the Legislative Assembly to support him, and the Girondists needed a general to give them legitimacy in the army.[6] He played a major part in the declaration of war against Austria (20 April), and he planned an attack on Tournai and the invasion of the Austrian Netherlands. His foreign policy was greatly influenced by Jean-Louis Favier.[7] Favier had called for France to break its ties with Austria.
On the king's dismissal of Roland, Clavière and Servan (13 June 1792), he took Servan's post of minister of war, but resigned it a few days days later on account of Louis XVI's refusal to come to terms with the National Constituent Assembly, concerning his suspensive veto. Within a week he joined the army of the North under Marshal Luckner. After the émeute of 10 August 1792 and Lafayette’s flight, he gained appointment to the command of the "Army of the Centre". At the same moment, France's enemies assumed the offensive. Dumouriez acted promptly from Sedan.
On August 24, 1792, Dumouriez wrote to his ally General François Kellermann about the void in military power within France. Within this letter, Dumouriez voices his opinions adamantly that Lafayette was a "traitor"[8] to France after being arrested for mobilizing his army from the borders of France to Paris to protect the Royal family from revolutionaries who were dissatisfied with the monarchy of France at the time. Within this letter, Dumouriez's attachment to the Jacobin club is explicitly present as he tells Kellermann that the army was finally "purged of aristocrats".[9] Dumouriez's loyalty to France's military which was evident within this letter was instrumental to him ascending to his future position of Foreign Minister of France from March 1792 to June 1792, restoring the natural borders of France. Dumouriez outmaneuvered the invading forces of the Duke of Brunswick in the forest of Argonne. His subordinate Kellermann repulsed the Prussians at Valmy (20 September 1792). That day would become the first day of the French Revolutionary Calendar. After these military victories, Dumouriez was ready to invade Belgium to spread revolution in the Flanders campaign.
Army of the North
Supported by minister Lebrun-Tondu, he declared in the National Convention on 12 October that he would liberate the Belgians and the Liège people. On 27 October, 1792, he invaded the Austrian Netherlands. Dumouriez himself severely defeated the Austrians at Jemappes (6 November 1792).[3] He became a military hero for this decisive victory in which the newspaper "Révolutions de Paris" proclaimed him the liberator of the Belgians.[10] On 14 November he arrived in Bruxelles. Several times he received a mission of Dutch patriots/revolutionairies with whom he agreed on the principles; De Kock and his friends settled in Antwerp.[11] Cambon pointed at the empty treasury and the wealthy Dutch. Dumouriez wrote a letter to the Convention scolding it for not supplying his army to his satisfaction and for the Decree of 15 December, which allowed the French armies to loot in the territory they had won, besides the introduction of the inflation-prone assignats in the conquered areas, and to expropriate church property. The Decree insured that any plan concerning Belgium would fail due to a lack of popular support among the Belgians. This letter became known as "Dumouriez’s declaration of war".[6]
Dumouriez wanted to establish an independent Belgian state, free of Austrian control, which would act as a buffer on France's eastern borders, but that would not worry the British. To achieve this he began negotiations with the local authorities in Belgium, but on 15 December the Convention passed a decree ordering the military commanders in the occupied territories to implement all revolutionary laws.[12]
War with the Dutch Republic
Returning to Paris on 1 January 1793, Dumouriez encountered popular ovation, but he gained less sympathy from the revolutionary government. On 12 January he had a meeting with Lebrun-Tondu; on 23 January he was sent back.[13] Dumouriez appreciated the secret proposals of Van de Spiegel and Baron Auckland: in exchange for recognition of French Republic, France would have to refrain from aggression against other countries. The Dutch were willing to pay and an invasion of the Netherlands was postponed. To the more radical elements in Paris, it became clear that Dumouriez was not a true patriot but worked during the trial of Louis XVI to save him from execution. On 29 January Dumouriez lost his negotiating mandate.[14] With the help of the Girondists, Dumouriez, ensured that defaulting Pache had to resign at the end of January 1793;[15] at the most critical moment of the war.[16] His old-fashioned methodical method of conducting war exposed him to the criticism of ardent Jacobins, and a defeat would have meant the end of his career.[3]
To declare war had always been a prerogative of the king. On 1 February Brissot declared war against Britain and the Dutch Republic. The next day Miranda gave the command of the French forces back to Dumouriez. Miranda, de Stengel, Valence, and Eustace went northeast; Dumouriez, and Dampierre went northwest. Although Dumouriez advised the government, simply to recognise Belgium's independence, the Jacobins sent agents, tasked with preparing the annexation. Danton was one of them. Dumouriez wanted to install a non-Jacobean rule in the Netherlands but by mid-February Lazare Carnot proposed that annexation be undertaken on behalf of French interests whether or not the people to be annexed so wished.[17] On 16 February 1793, the French troops crossed the Dutch border. Breda, Klundert, and Geertruidenberg were occupied with an army that lacked almost everything. After the French lost Venlo, the Battle of Aldenhoven (1793), Aachen, Maastricht and the supply at Liège,[18] Dumouriez decided to return to Bruxelles rather than entering Holland.[19] The situation was alarming.[20] Miranda, responsible for some of the losses, wrote Dumouriez to continue his plan and not return to Belgium.[21] On 8 March, Dumouriez was ordered by the "Conseil Executive" to cease further invasion preparations. This was completely contrary to his plan de campagne.[22]
On 11 March, Dumouriez addressed the Brussels assembly, apologizing for the actions of the French commissioners and looting soldiers.[23] On 12 March Dumouriez wrote an angry, insolent letter which is considered as a "declaration of war on the Convention". He criticized the interference of officials of the War Ministry which employed many Jacobins.[24] He attacked not only Pache, the former minister of war, but also Marat and Robespierre.[25] Meanwhile Danton initiated the creation of the Revolutionary Tribunal to interrogate the generals. Dumouriez had long been unable to agree with the course of the Convention. He was disenchanted with the radicalization of the revolution and its politics and put an end to the annexation efforts.[26] On 18 March 1793, Dumouriez's army attacked the Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands and the brother of the Austrian emperor, Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld's army. A major defeat in the Battle of Neerwinden nearly ended the French invasion. After a second defeat near Leuven on 21 March. On 22 March Dumouriez opened negotiations with the Austrian General Mack. He would negotiate peace, dissolve the convention, to restore the French Constitution of 1791, the restoration of a constitutional monarchy and to free Marie-Antoinette and her children.[27][28] They allowed Dumouriez to retreat to Brussels; his soldiers deserting in large numbers. The next day Dumouriez promised the Austrians he would leave Belgium by 30 March. (N.B. He had no permission and was without approval of the convention.[29]) On 25 March Dumouriez asked Karl Mack his support to march on the capital. He urged the Duke of Chartres, still a teenager, to join his plan.
The French armies took positions behind the frontier. The Army of Holland deployed near Lille, the Army of the Ardennes at Maulde, the Army of the North at Saint-Amand, and the Army of Belgium at Condé-sur-l'Escaut and Valenciennes.[30]
Dumouriez' defeat
The Jacobin leaders were quite sure that France had come close to a military coup mounted by Dumouriez. On 20 March Danton and Charles-François Delacroix were sent to Lille. Dumouriez sensed a trap and invited them to his headquarters. They were escorted by Joseph Bologne a French Creole from Guadeloupe, leading an all-black regiment.[31] The commissioners sent Francisco de Miranda, the only general from Latin America in French service, to Paris. On 24 March, Miranda blamed Dumouriez for the defeat in the Battle of Neerwinden (1793) in front of the Convention. (On 25 March Robespierre became one of the 25 members of the Committee of General Defence, which changed its name of Committee of Public Safety to coordinate the war effort.[32]) By the end of the month Robespierre called for the removal of Dumouriez, who in his eyes aspired to become a Belgian dictator or chief of state, and was placed under arrest.[33] A body of commissioners was sent to arrest him.[34] [35] Dumouriez arrested the four and handed them over to General Clerfayt. On 3 April Robespierre declared before the Convention that the whole war was a prepared game between Dumouriez and Brissot to overthrow the First French Republic.[36] On 4 April the convention declared Dumouriez a traiter and outlaw and put a prize on his head.[37] Davout's volunteer battalion tried to arrest Dumouriez returning from a meeting with the Austrians.[38] Then Dumouriez unsuccessfully tried to persuade Davout to his side and made a move to save himself from his radical enemies. He escaped by jumping on the horse of the Duke of Chartres.[39]
Dumouriez had long been unable to agree with the course of the Convention. He did not want the Dutch Republic to come under French authority, or even to be incorporated. It was his army that liberated the Northern Netherlands, and he would not allow it to fall into the hands of commissioners of the Convention. Arresting the four deputy-commissioners of the National Convention who had been sent to inquire into his conduct (Camus, Bancal-des-Issarts, Quinette, and Lamarque) lead by the Minister of War, Pierre Riel de Beurnonville, he handed them over to Clairfayt. He attempted to persuade his troops to march on Paris and overthrow the revolutionary government. The attempt proved unfeasible because many of his soldiers were staunch republicans and several of his officers opposed him. Dumouriez, along with his chief of staff Pierre Thouvenot, the duc de Chartres (afterwards King Louis Philippe) and his younger brother, the duc de Montpensier, fled on 5 April 1793 into the Austrian camp at Mons.[3] This blow left the Brissotins vulnerable due to their association with Dumouriez. The Montagnards launched a vigorous campaign against 22 Brissotins. Suspicion rose against Phillipe Égalité, because of the friendship of his eldest son, with Dumouriez. He would be arrested a few weeks later.
Later life and death
Following his defection on 5 April 1793, Dumouriez remained in Brussels for a short time, and then travelled to Cologne, seeking a position at the elector's court. He soon learned he had become an object of suspicion among his countrymen, the royal houses, aristocracies, and clergy of Europe. In response, Dumouriez wrote and published in Hamburg a first volume of memoirs in which he offered his version of the previous year's events.
Dumouriez now wandered from country to country, occupied in ceaseless royalist intrigues, until 1804 when he settled in England, where the British government granted him a pension. He became a valuable adviser to the British War Office, and the Duke of York and Albany in his struggle against Napoleon, though the extent of his aid only became public many years later. In 1814 and 1815, he endeavoured to procure from Louis XVIII the baton of a marshal of France, but failed to do so.[3] He died at Turville Park, near Henley-on-Thames, on 14 March 1823.[3] Dumouriez's memoirs appeared at Hamburg in 1794. An enlarged edition, La Vie et les mémoires du Général Dumouriez, appeared at Paris in 1823. Dumouriez also wrote a large number of political pamphlets.[3]
References
- ^ P.C. Howe (1982) Foreign Policy and the French Revolution, p. 179-180
- ^ Banat, Gabriel (2006). The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press. ISBN 978-1-57647-109-8. OCLC 63703876., p. 396
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dumouriez, Charles François". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 667. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ https://www.frenchempire.net/biographies/dumouriez/
- ^ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Francois-du-Perier-Dumouriez
- ^ a b Brace, Richard Munthe, General Dumouriez and the Girondins 1792-1793, in The American Historical Review, Vol. 56, No. 3, (April, 1951), pp. 493-509.
- ^ Savage, Gary. Favier’s Heirs: The French Revolution and the Secret du Roi, in The Historical Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1, (March 1998), pp. 225-258.
- ^ "From Hero To 'Traitor': The French Revolution." Lafayette: Citizen of Two Worlds. Cornell University, n.d. Web. 26 Mar. 2017. <http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lafayette/exhibition/english/traitor/>
- ^ Dumouriez, Charles François. "Letter to General François Kellermann". 24 August 1792.<http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lafayette/exhibition/pdf/REX029_051.pdf>
- ^ "Department of History." Illustrations from Révolutions De Paris | Department of History. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2017.
- ^ J. Rosendaal, p. 349, 351, 355, 361
- ^ Rickard, J. (2009), Charles François Dumouriez, 1739-1823, http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/people_dumouriez_charles.html
- ^ J. Rosendaal, p. 369
- ^ J. Rosendaal, p. 370-371
- ^ Richard Munthe Brace: General Dumouriez and the Girondins 1792–1793. In American Historical Review 56, Nr. 3, (1951), S. 499 f.
- ^ Banat, Gabriel (2006). The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press. ISBN 978-1-57647-109-8. OCLC 63703876., p. 379
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