✦ History

Part of French Revolutionary Wars

Battle of Valmy

September 20, 1792 · Battle of Valmy

Result French victory

Dumouriez and Kellermann stopped the Prussian invasion of France in an artillery duel in Champagne.

On the map Contemporaries

Coalition

France

Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of Prussia
France
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel military commander Friedrich Wilhelm, Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg military commander François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt military commander
Charles François Dumouriez military commander François Christophe de Kellermann military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
34,000
Casualties
c. 200c. 200
Guns
58c. 58
Strength
36,000c. 52,000
Casualties
400c. 300
Guns
54c. 40

Units

Duke of Brunswick's army (1792)
Army of the Centre (1792)

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