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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
Pyrenees
Result

French victory

  • Peace of Basel
Territorial
changes
Spain cedes Santo Domingo to France
Belligerents
French First Republic French Republic Spain Spain
War of the Pyrenees Portugal
Commanders and leaders
French First Republic Louis de Flers
French First Republic Eustache d'Aoust
French First Republic Luc Dagobert
French First Republic Louis Marie Turreau
French First Republic J. Dugommier 
French First Republic Dominique Pérignon
French First Republic Barthélemy Schérer
French First Republic Bon-Adrien Moncey
French First Republic Pierre Augereau
French First Republic Pierre Sauret
French First Republic Claude Victor-Perrin
French First Republic Henri Delaborde
Spain Antonio Ricardos
Spain Luis de la Union 
Spain Jerónimo Girón
Spain José de Urrutia
Spain Gregorio Cuesta
Spain Pedro Téllez-Girón
Spain Juan de Lángara
Spain Federico Gravina
Portugal João Forbes
Portugal Count of Feira
Portugal Gomes Freire
Portugal Count of Subserra
Units involved
French First Republic Army of the Eastern Pyrenees
French First Republic Army of the Western Pyrenees
Spain Army of Catalonia
Portugal Army of Assistance to the Crown of Spain
Strength
French First Republic Spain
Portugal 5,052 men

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.

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[citation needed]. Commanders of the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees were especially unlucky in this regard[citation needed].

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