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The Battle of Arlon (9 June 1793) saw a French Republican force under the command of Amable Henri Delaage face a Habsburg Austrian force led by Gottfried von Schröder. The French were victorious though they suffered higher casualties than the Austrians. The action was fought during the War of the First Coalition, part of the larger French Revolutionary Wars. Arlon is located in Belgium, a distance of west of Luxembourg city. == Campaign == During the Siege of Mainz, the ''Army of the Rhine'', under the orders of Alexandre François Marie de Beauharnais (who had come to replace Adam Philippe de Custine), was entrenched on the Lauter. After taking up his positions, the commander in chief had reorganised his troops and incorporated the recruits who had arrived from all sides. At the same time the ''Army of the Moselle'' was retiring behind the Blies and Saar. This inaction displeased the National Convention and the two generals were strongly ordered by the Committee of Public Safety to reassume the offensive and march to the aid of the army blockaded in Mainz by all the efforts of the Coalition forces. The surest means of raising the siege was to carry out a two-pronged simultaneous attack on the enemy, with the ''Army of the Moselle'' attacking by Pirmasens or Kaiserslautern and the ''Army of the Rhine'' by the left bank of the river. In 1793 the ''Army of the Moselle'' counted 27 battalions of line infantry, four battalions of light infantry, 42 battalions of National Guards and 12 mounted regiments. The line infantry included the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 30th, 33rd, 96th, 99th and 103rd Demi Brigades, the 1st Battalions of the 1st, 5th, 27th, 41st and 81st Demi Brigades and the 2nd Battalions of the 2nd, 8th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 40th, 47th, 54th, 55th, 58th, 71st and 100th Demi Brigades. The light infantry consisted of the 6th, 13th, 16th and 17th Battalions. The cavalry regiments were the 4th, 10th, 11th and 14th Cavalry, 1st, 11th and 14th Dragoons, 1st, 9th, 18th and 19th Chasseurs à Cheval and the 2nd Hussars. The National Guards were made up of the 1st Battalions of the ''Ardennes'', ''Creuse'', ''Paris Butte de Moulins'', ''Saône-et-Loire'' and ''Yonne'', the 2nd Battalions of the ''Lot'' and ''Haute-Marne'', the 3rd Battalions of the ''Côte-d'Or'', ''Manche'', ''Paris Sections Armée'' and ''Haut-Rhin'', the 4th Battalions of the ''Oise'' and ''Var'', the 5th Battalion of the ''Orne'', the 6th Battalions of the ''Basses-Pyrénées'' and ''Seine-et-Oise'', the 7th Battalion of the ''Marne'', the 9th Battalion of ''Paris Ste. Margueritte'', the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the ''Cher'', 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the ''Loiret'', the 4th, 6th and 7th Battalions of the ''Meurthe'', the 1st, 3rd and 5th Battalions of the ''Meuse'', the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Battalions of the ''Moselle'', the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the ''Paris République'', the 3rd and 4th Battalions of the ''Bas-Rhin'', the 1st and 7th Battalions of the ''Rhône-et-Loire'', the 1st and 4th Battalions of the ''Haute-Saône'' and the 1st and 6th Battalions of the ''Vosges''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Battle of Arlon (1793)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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