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480:. At Metz, 3–4000 French republicans faced an Austrian-Émigré siege force of 20,000. Expecting the fortress to surrender without a fight, the Austrians and émigrés under command of the Prince of Bourbon, did not bring any siege cannon. Although losses were slight (about 10 killed or wounded), the failure to take Thionville from 2 battalions of Infantry and some National Guardsmen rankled. In the previous 3 weeks, Austrians and Prussian forces had successfully forced the capitulation of Longwy and Verdun. Two weeks later, after the cannonade at Valmy, the émigré army and the Austrians, did not get to the battlefield until most of the fighting was over and the Prussians were withdrawing.
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432:. The insistence of the officers on the same pay to which they were entitled in France created problems for their funders, which included Spain, Portugal, and Naples, and Britain, and finally, Russia. The British funded the army the longest, from 1795 to 1797, and again, in 1799 until its dissolution in 1801.
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The army of the émigrés had but a single goal, to invade France, end the
Revolution, and restore Bourbon rule. However, the various nations who funded the army were less interested in restoring order in France than in gaining new territory for themselves and keeping the Revolution confined within
495:, the British agreed to pay the Corps' expenses. In June 1796, the Condé's army and the Swabian Circle contingent guarded the Rhine river crossing at Kehl, but were pushed out when the French crossed the river in force on June 26. Afterward, the Condé's corps and the Contingent fought in
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service distrusted Louis Joseph, and policy makers in Vienna considered the army and its officers unreliable. Furthermore, conflicting goals of the French royalists and the
Habsburgs frequently placed Louis Joseph at odds with the Habsburg military leadership.
514:. The agreement negotiated between Conde and Wickham expired and the Corps entered the pay of the Tsar of Russia. In October, the entire Corps, numbering about 10,000, left the Bodensee region and marched toward Russia. In October 1797,
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French borders. This often led to friction between the Prince's Army and its benefactors, particularly the
Austrians. At one point the Emperor put the Condé himself under arrest for insubordination.
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Originally about 25,000 men, the size of the
Princes' Army fluctuated with casualties and available funds. By the end of 1792, the force had shrunk to 5,000 men. After recruiting in 1796, in
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Financial difficulties forced Condé to appeal to foreign courts for support. Although the Army of Condé fought in conjunction with the
Austrian army, many of the generals in
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American cyclopedia: a popular dictionary of General knowledge. “House of Condé ” New York : D. Appleton, 1869-70. Volume 5, p. 597.
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Dictionary of the French Revolution, “Emigres”. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. p. 328.
503:. After the contingent was disbanded, the Corps remained in Swabia, participating in the summer fighting Swabia. In October 1796, at the
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The composition of the army varied: the regiments of
Mirabeau, Rohan and Salms, for example, were almost independent corps.
549:, the English agreed once again to pay the Conde's army and it fought in Bavaria until 1801, when the Corps was disbanded.
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537:, returning in 1799 to Switzerland under command of
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380:, and so the army was sometimes also called the
368:. Among its members were Condé's grandson, the
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564:Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé
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524:First French Republic
529:With the end of the
505:Battle of Schliengen
372:and the two sons of
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426:Comte de Montlosier
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338:émigré field armies
304:Battle of Biberach
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