Battle of Raismes
The Battle of Raismes was a major engagement in the Flanders Campaign of 1792-1795, during the War of the First Coalition (1792-1797). It saw a French Republican army under the command of General Dampierre attack a larger Coalition force in a desperate attempt to relieve the siege of Condé. The French were defeated, and the Coalition advanced further into France.
The battle resulted in the death of Dampierre, who had commanded the French Army of the North for only a month, and it caused further setbacks for the undersupplied armies of the French Revolution (1789-1799). Defeats like the one at Raismes would cause Revolutionary France to implement extreme measures like the Reign of Terror in order to defend itself. The battle was also significant for being the first engagement between French and British soldiers during the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) and, by extension, the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815).
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