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Armée des Émigrés

Armée des Émigrés
Army of the Émigrés
Armées des émigrés.jpg
Armée des Émigrés at the Battle of Quiberon.
Active 1792–1814
Country France
Allegiance

House of Bourbon

Allies:

Size 20,000
Motto(s) Montjoie Saint Denis!
("Mountjoy Saint Denis!")
Colors White
Engagements
Commanders
Commander Louis Joseph
Insignia
Royal Banner Drapeau du royaume de France.png

House of Bourbon

Allies:

The Armée des Émigrés (English: Army of the Émigrés), were counter-revolutionary armies raised outside France by and out of Royalist Émigrés, with the aim of overthrowing the French Revolution, reconquering France and restoring the monarchy. These were aided by royalist armies within France itself, such as the Chouans, and by allied countries such as Great Britain. They fought, for example, at the sieges of Lyon and Toulon.

They were formed from:

Even Napoleon I said of them "True, they are paid by our enemies, but they were or should have been bound to the cause of their King. France gave death to their action, and tears to their courage. All devotion is heroic".

Raised in Germany in 1792, at Trier, and commanded by marshals de Broglie and de Castries, under the aegis of Louis XVI's brothers, the comte de Provence and duc d'Artois. 10,000 strong, it returned to France beside the army of Brunswick and was dismissed on 24 November 1792, two months after the French victory at Valmy.


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