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Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ( German: Friedrich Josias von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld) (26 December 1737 – 26 February 1815) was an Austrian nobleman and military commander.
- 1759–1795
- Imperial Army
Federico Josías de Sajonia-Coburgo-Saalfeld (en alemán: Friedrich Josias von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld; Coburgo, 26 de diciembre de 1737- ibidem, 26 de febrero de 1815) fue un príncipe de Sajonia-Coburgo-Saalfeld y un general al servicio de Austria . Biografía.
Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Friedrich Josias Carl Eduard Ernst Kyrill Harald; 29 November 1918 – 23 January 1998) was the head of the Ducal Family of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and titular Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1954 until his death. He was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria .
- Background
- Battles of Hondschoote & Menin
- Jourdan Takes Command
- Siege of Maubeuge
- First Day: 15 October
- Second Day: 16 October
- Aftermath
The First Coalition was an alliance of Europe's great powers, united against the French Revolution. Unnerved by the trial and execution of Louis XVI and by the revolutionaries' promise to spread their revolution into the corners of Europe, the rulers of Europe's Ancien Régimes had assembled a multinational army to kill the infant French Republic in...
When the Coalition army split itself up, the French did not waste the opportunity. The commander of the French Army of the North, Comte de Custine, had recently been guillotined for his inaction, meaning the first order of business was to appoint a successor. The position was filled by the hapless general Jean-Nicolas Houchard, who was immediately ...
Houchard led his victorious French army to Courtrai, hoping to reoccupy the town from the Coalition. When he arrived, he found that it was well-defended by an entrenched Austrian force. The French were beaten back, only to find that Menin had been recaptured by York in their absence. Rather than engage the British, Houchard retreated to Lille to re...
On 13 September, Le Quesnoy fell to the Austrians. The Prince of Coburg then laid siege to Maubeuge, yet another fortified town 11 miles south of Mons. The French Republic could not allow Maubeuge to fall; if it did, Coburg would control four French fortifications, giving him a base of operations on French soil from where he could launch attacks de...
The morning of 15 October found the Austrian army entrenched, awaiting the French attack. Although Clerfayt was nominally in command, Coburg decided to take control of the battle personally. He wrote to the Prince of Orange to ask for reinforcements, but the Dutch stadtholderrefused to move his soldiers away from Maubeuge, fearful that another sort...
On the morning of the second day, 16 October, Jourdan decided to focus the brunt of his attack on Wattignies; Carnot would later claim credit for this plan, but many military historians credit it to Jourdan himself. While Fromentin's division was ordered to simply distract the Austrian right and center with skirmishers, 22,000 French were to advanc...
Jourdan was shocked to learn that he had won the battle; on the night of 16 October, he had written Paris that he believed the battle would result in a stalemate. On 17 October, the French marched triumphantly into Maubeuge, only to find a weary population who did not seem overly joyous to be liberated. Carnot reported to his colleagues on the Comm...
His youngest son Prince Frederick Josias made himself and the Duchy famous with his sieges and victories as an Imperial general and field marshal in the Austro-Turkish War and the War of the First Coalition against France.
Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (26 December 1737 – 26 February 1815) , was a famous general of the Habsburg Emperors . Born at Schloß Ehrenburg in Coburg, he was the youngest son of Duke Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Anna Sophie, Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . Josias joined the Habsburg ...
Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ( German: Friedrich Josias von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld) (26 December 1737 – 26 February 1815) was an Austrian nobleman and military general. You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (October 2023) Click for important translation instructions.
