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    The Battle of Famars was fought on 23 May 1793 during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. An Allied Austrian, Hanoverian, and British...
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    Éloi Laurent Despeaux (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
    day were not given. The French were defeated by the Coalition in the Battle of Famars on 23 May 1793. After greatly distinguishing himself and suffering...
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    Ça Ira (category Songs of the French Revolution)
    this song. At the 1793 Battle of Famars, the 14th Regiment of Foot, the West Yorkshire Regiment, attacked the French to the music of "Ça ira" (the colonel...
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    Famars (French pronunciation: [famaʁs] ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Communes of the Nord department Battle of Famars (1793)...
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    The Battle of Neerwinden (18 March 1793) saw a Republican French army led by Charles François Dumouriez attack a Coalition army commanded by Prince Josias...
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  • in a Spanish victory. Battle of Famars or Valenciennes (1793), fought on 23 May, was a First Coalition victory on the borders of France which prepared...
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    Anglo-Hanoverian forces saw their debut action at the Battle of Famars. In the same region of the Pas-de-Calais, the French, now under François Joseph...
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    notable success at the Battle of Beaumont in April and another at the Battle of Willems in May but was defeated at the Battle of Tourcoing later that month...
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    Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies. 1788 – South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1793 – Battle of Famars during the...
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    1794, for which they were subsequently granted the battle honour 'Tournay'. At the Battle of Famars, in order to encourage the men, Lieutenant-Colonel...
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