Timeline March 1793

Events in March 1793 3

• 1793 France declares war on Spain Conflict spreads to the Pyrenees The National Convention declared war on Spain, opening a new front in the War of the First Coalition. Fighting between French and Spanish forces continued along the Pyrenees for the next two years.
• 1793 War in the Vendee begins Royalist peasant uprising against the Republic Peasants and royalists in the Vendee region of western France rose in armed revolt against conscription and the revolutionary government. The brutal civil war that followed killed well over a hundred thousand people before its suppression.
• 1793 Battle of Neerwinden Austrian victory halts French advance in the Low Countries An Austrian army under the Prince of Coburg defeated French forces commanded by Charles Francois Dumouriez near Neerwinden in the Austrian Netherlands. The defeat forced the French to abandon their occupation of the region and led to Dumouriez's defection.