The Battle of Valmy (In Our Time)
1792 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most consequential battles of recent centuries. On 20th September 1792 at Valmy, 120 miles to the east of Paris, the army of the French Revolution faced Prussians, Austrians and French royalists heading for Paris to free Louis XVI and restore his power and end the Revolution. The professional soldiers in the French
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Around 1792
- French Revolution (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)