BATTLE OF VALMY
(1792 A.D.): France next became once again the scene of world history. In 1792, on September 20, she declared herself a Republic, after starting a fashion in revolutions which ever since has made people fight against people, one nation against another, one nation against itself, carrying on the old tale of one freedom against another tyranny, one social system against another philosophy. Austria then dominated the Netherlands. France declared war and invaded Flanders only to retire in panic at the flash of the Austrian sabres. The Allied sovereigns collected an army to march against France. The outer fortresses fell, but Dumouriez somehow organised the undisciplined Frenchmen, revived them again after a hasty retreat from the Argonne, joined forces with the army of Kellerman (Duke of Valmy) and won the Battle of Valmy against Brunswick’s Prussians while the National Convention in Paris was declaring France a Republic. The Revolution was saved to produce Napoleon.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 63, 6 September 1940, Page 9
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