Blockade of Mainz

See also: Head office of Mainz

In 1794-1795, the Fortress Mainz qualified one of the strongest places of the Holy Germanic Roman Empire, Luxembourg excluded, must capitulate to the armies of the French Republic, after a blockade and an eleven month old seat. Mainz was the last fortress of the Austrians to the République cisrhénane.

Before the French conquest, Cisrhénanie was a mosaic of several tens of States, members of the Saint Germanic Roman Empire. It is occupied as from 1792.

The lines of Mainz starts in left bank with Laubenheim, Weisenau, Hechtsheim (general Courtot with 9.000 men), Marienborn (general Saint-Cyr military school with 6.800 men), Ober-Olm (general Mengaud with 6.700 men), Gonsenheim (general Reneauld with 8.200 men), Mombach; with bank right Cassel, Mainz-Kostheim. The General headquarter in front of Mainz or Merlin of Thionville residiée was in Ober- Ingelheim.

Observation balloon

This battle sees the second use of a observation balloon. The Capitaine Coutelle can thus observe the device of united.

Napoleon will not retain this innovation, because of its reduced mobility, incompatible with the rate/rhythm to which it carries out his operations.

Mainz was yielded to France in 1797. The French in 1801 annexed left bank of the Rhine completely.

See also: History of Mainz

Personalities of blockade of Mainz

See too

  • Armed with military Mainz
  • Celebrities of Mainz
  • Treated of Basle (July 22nd, 1795)

Litérature

  • Mainz - Die Geschichte der Stadt - Mainz - History of the city; Editors: Franz Dumont, Ferdinand Scherf, Friedrich Schütz; 1. Aufl. ; Editor Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998
  • Smith, D. The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Dated Book . Greenhill Books, 1998.

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