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Battle of Valmy (1792)
On the Age of Revolutions map as “Valmy”
20 Sep 1792 — Throughout a day-long cannonade, a citizen army held its ground against Prussia’s professionals. Goethe watched and declared: “Here and today, a new era of world history begins.”
When 20 Sep 1792 Type Battle site Chapter Reign of Terror (chapter 4 of Age of Revolutions)Atlas The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848 BATTLE SITE · THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS, 1775–1848 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · National Army Museum: Valenciennes and the 1793 Flanders campaign · Gendarmerie nationale: Hondschoote 1793 · Natural Earth physical geography · Maps of History: Revolutions reconstruction decisions
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, reprojected and corrected by Maps of History as described per layer.. CC BY4.0 National Army Museum; Famars/Valenciennes campaign and limited frontier advances.. Historical evidence citation; no artwork copied French Gendarmerie nationale; Bergues and Hondschoote campaign locations.. Historical evidence citation; no map copied Made with Natural Earth; present coastlines support physical clipping, not historical political boundaries.. Public domain Maps of History: regional revolt/campaign footprints are inferred teaching regions, not surveyed fronts or homogeneous control.. Original educational reconstruction using cited datasets and historical evidence Annual source outlines can combine imperial claims with areas of control. The labels identify the historical role selected, while dates finer than the source interval are made explicit in these details.
Displayed map state e 93 at 1793.15; chapter framing 1793.6. Where finer geometry is unavailable, monthly states use annual source references.
reconstruction: 1793.15 · vector: 1645–1793 · vector: 1709–1808 · vector: 1721–1813 · vector: 1734–1795 · vector: 1748–1793 · vector: 1748–1795 · vector: 1748–1796 · vector: 1757–1798 · vector: 1757–1804 · vector: 1762–1793 · vector: 1762–1798 · vector: 1763–1808 · vector: 1769–1841 · vector: 1772–1806 · vector: 1772–1810 · vector: 1775–1795 · vector: 1775–1802 · vector: 1775–1806 · vector: 1775–1810 · vector: 1781–1795 · vector: 1783–1799 · vector: 1788–1793 · vector: 1788–1808 · vector: 1788–1810 · vector: 1791–1793 · vector: 1791–1795 · vector: 1791–1796 · vector: 1791–1799 · vector: 1791–1802 · vector: 1792–1793 · vector: 1792–1804 · vector: 1792–1806 · vector: 1792–1829
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