War of the Pyrenees

The War of the Pyrenees, also known as War of Roussillon or War of the Convention, was the Pyrenean front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic. It pitted Revolutionary France against the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal from March 1793 to July 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars.

War of the Pyrenees
Part of the War of the First Coalition

Battle of Boulou
Date7 March 1793 – 22 July 1795
(2 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Result

French victory

Territorial
changes
Spain cedes Santo Domingo to France
Belligerents
French Republic Spain
 Portugal
Commanders and leaders
Louis de Flers
Eustache d'Aoust
Luc Dagobert
Louis Marie Turreau
J. Dugommier 
Dominique Pérignon
Barthélemy Schérer
Bon-Adrien Moncey
Pierre Augereau
Pierre Sauret
Claude Victor-Perrin
Henri Delaborde
Antonio Ricardos
Luis de la Union 
Jerónimo Girón
José de Urrutia
Gregorio Cuesta
Pedro Téllez-Girón
Juan de Lángara
Federico Gravina
João Forbes
Count of Feira
G. Freire de Andrade
Count of Subserra
Units involved
Army of the Eastern Pyrenees
Army of the Western Pyrenees
Army of Catalonia
Army of Assistance to the Crown of Spain
Strength

5,052 men

The war was fought in the eastern and western Pyrenees, at the French port of Toulon, and at sea. In 1793, a Spanish army invaded Roussillon in the eastern Pyrenees and maintained itself on French soil through April 1794. The French Revolutionary Army drove the Spanish Army back into Catalonia and inflicted a serious defeat in November 1794. After February 1795, the war in the eastern Pyrenees became a stalemate. In the western Pyrenees, the French began to win in 1794. By 1795, the French army controlled a portion of northeast Spain.

The war was brutal in at least two ways. The Committee of Public Safety decreed that all French royalist prisoners be executed. Also, French generals who lost battles or otherwise displeased the representatives-on-mission often faced prison or execution. Commanders of the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees were especially unlucky in this regard.

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