18th-century conflict between Revolutionary France and Spain and Portugal
War of the Pyrenees
Part of the War of the First Coalition
Battle of Boulou
Date
7 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 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 Gomes Freire 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
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War of the Pyrenees
Eastern Pyrenees
Mas Deu
1st Bellegarde
Perpignan
Peyrestortes
Truillas
1st Boulou
Villelongue
1st Collioure
2nd Boulou
2nd Collioure
1st Sant Llorenç
2nd Sant Llorenç
2nd Bellegarde
Black Mountain
Roses
Western Pyrenees
Château-Pignon
Sans Culottes Camp
Baztan
Orbaizeta
Bascara
Toulon
Fort-Dauphin
Gulf of Roses
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War of the First Coalition (List)
Porrentruy
Quiévrain
Marquain
Tuileries
Verdun
Thionville
Valmy
Lille
Mainz
Jemappes
Sardinia
Martinique
Guadeloupe
Den Helder
Siegburg
Altenkirchen
Wetzlar
Kircheib
1st Kehl
Malsch
Neresheim
Amberg
Newfoundland
Würzburg
Limburg
2nd Kehl
Biberach
Ireland
Fishguard
Neuwied
Diersheim
Flanders campaign
Chouannerie
Mediterranean campaign
War in the Vendée
War of the Pyrenees
Italian campaigns
East Indies Theatre
Rhine campaign of 1793–94
Atlantic campaign
Rhine campaign of 1795
Rhine campaign of 1796
Anglo-Spanish War
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Franco-Spanish wars
(1495–1498
1502–1504
1512–1516
1521–1526
1526–1529
1536–1538
1542–1544
1551–1559)
1580–1583
1595–1598
1625
1628–1631
1635–1659 (1640–1659, 1641–1659, 1648–1653)
1667–1668
1673–1678
1683–1684
1688–1697
1718–1720
1793–1795
1808–1814
1815
1823
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Portugal in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
War of the Pyrenees 1793-1795
Toulon
2nd Boulou
Sant Llorenç de la Muga
Villelongue
Capmany
Bascara
Mediterranean Campaign 1798
Malta
War of the Oranges 1801
First invasion of Portugal 1807–1808
Olhão
Padrões de Teixeira
Évora
Roliça
Vimeiro
Second invasion of Portugal 1809
Chaves
Braga
1st Porto
Amarante
Grijó
2nd Porto
Third invasion of Portugal 1810–1811
River Côa
1st Almeida
Bussaco
Trant's raid
Battle of Sobral
Pombal
Redinha
Condeixa
Casal Novo
Foz de Arouce
Sabugal
2nd Almeida
Fuentes de Oñoro
Aldeia da Ponte
Spain 1811-1813
1st Badajoz
Barrosa
2nd Badajoz
Usagre
El Bodón
Arroyo dos Molinos
Ciudad Rodrigo
3rd Badajoz
Almaraz
Salamanca Forts
Salamanca
Majadahonda
Burgos
Tordesillas
San Millan
Vitoria
Tolosa
Pamplona
San Sebastián
Pyrenees
Maya
Roncesvalles
Sorauren
Lizasso
Buenza
France 1813-1814
Bidassoa
Nivelle
Nive
Garris
Orthez
Toulouse
Bayonne
Overseas
Guerra de 1801
Guiana
Banda Oriental
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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