Siege of Thionville (1792)
Part of theWar of the First Coalition
Print of the 1792 siege of Thionville
Date 24 August – 16 October 1792[1] Location Thionville, France 49°21′32″N6°10′09″E / 49.3589°N 6.1692°E /49.3589; 6.1692 Result French victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of the French(until21 September) French First Republic	Habsburg Realm Armée des Émigrés
Commanders and leaders
Georges Félix de Wimpffen	Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg
Strength
3,000–5,000[2] French	20,000 Austrians[3] 12,000[4]–16,000 French émigrés
Casualties and losses
Low	Very heavy
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Thesiege of Thionville saw an unsuccessful attempt to conquer the French stronghold ofThionville by the Austro-royalists during theWar of the First Coalition.^[5]

It began atThionville on 24 August 1792. A coalition force of 20,000 Austrians and 16,000 French Royalist troops underFriedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg failed to take the town, commanded byGeorges Félix de Wimpffen, and raised the siege on 16 October. One of the French royalist troops wasFrançois-René de Chateaubriand, who was wounded in the battle.^[6]

In the aftermath of the siege theNational Convention declared that Thionville had "deserved well of the fatherland" - it namedPlace de Thionville and Rue de Thionville in Paris after the victory.

Louis-Emmanuel Nadine created the lyrical dramaSiége de Thionville in 1793.^[7]

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