Count de Civilart d'Happoncourt

Birth: 1766

Death: 1865

Occupation: General

The count d’Happoncourt, a Lorrainer, served in the Austrian army and was military governor of Tournai from 1790.

Appears in these Letters:

1792

25 May: Revolutionary France Faces Military Disaster

After much triumphalist rhetoric in Parisian political circles ahead of France's declaration of war against Austria on 20 April 1792, the harsh...