VALMY

välmēˈ, village (1993 est. pop. 293), Marne dept., NE France, in the Argonne region. The "cannonade of Valmy," a Franco-Prussian artillery skirmish, was fought near there on Sept. 20, 1792. This was the first important engagement in the French Revolutionary Wars. Although heavy rain brought an inconclusive halt, the encounter revealed the superiority of French artillery.

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From Yorktown to Valmy: The Transformation of the French Army in an Age of Revolution
Book by Samuel F. Scott; University Press of Colorado, 1998
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French
...30th Infantry, he had participated in the decisive battle of Valmy on September 20, 1792. This engagement, which saved Paris...rebellions. Elements of the unit took part in the battles of Valmy, Jemappes, Neerwinden, Wattignies, and Fleurus, as well...
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An Outline of European History from 1789 to 1989
Book by Sergio Romano; Berghahn Books, 1999
Subjects: Europe--History--1789-1900, Europe--History--20th Century
...elected by the soldiers. The battle at Valmy was little more than a skirmish, sometimes...tragicomic. The undaunted French stood on the Valmy hill while Kellerman continuously shouted...in a new bed. This was not only because Valmy coincided with the suppression of the monarchy...
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Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West
Book by George F. Howe; Center of Military History, 1991
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, Northwest
...from Ste. Barbedu-Tlelat through Valmy to Oran. At La Senia village, almost three miles south of Oran, and at Valmy, about four miles farther south-southeast...daylight, organized for an attack on Valmy in total darkness and still in ignorance...
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The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
Book by Sir Edward·s· Creasy; E.P. Dutton, 1908
Subjects: Battles, Military History
CHAPTER XIV THE BATTLE OF VALMY "Purpurei metuunt tyranni Injurioso...France, are the village and hill of Valmy ; and near the crest of that hill a simple...be deposited in the battle-field of Valmy, there to repose among the remains of...
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Soldiers, Statecraft, and History: Coercive Diplomacy and International Order
Book by James A. Nathan; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Intervention (International Law)--Political Aspects
...their well-cowed legislative supporters. VALMY Two weeks later, on September 20, 1792...but numerically superior French force at Valmy, a three-day quick march from Paris...its birth. 41 For the Revolutionaries, Valmy marked the dawn of the universal dominion...
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journal articles on: Valmy  - 13 results

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La Doble Historia Del Doctor Valmy: a View from the Feminine
Journal article by Eric Pennington; Symposium, Vol. 40, 1986
Subjects: Buero Vallejo, Antonio--1916---Doble Historia Del Doctor Valmy
...PENNINGTON LA DOBLE HISTORIA DEL DOCTOR VALMY: A VIEW FROM THE FEMININE ANTONIO BUERO VALLEJO La doble historia del doctor Valmy ( 1964 ) brings to the stage the difficult...suggest that La doble historia del doctor Valmy communicates more than an outcry against...
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Andre Gill and the Struggle against Censorship of Caricature in France, 1867-1879
Journal article by Robert Justin Goldstein; Journalism History, Vol. 21, 1995
Subjects: Cartoonists, Cartoons, Censorship, France, Gill, Andre, History
...1927). Somewhat less useful are J. Valmy-Baysse, Andre Gill (Paris: Marcel...Chargez Paris: Le Chemin Vert ); the Valmy-Baysse 1927 biography was reprinted in...Fontane, Andre Gill, 2: 276. 15. Valmy-Baysse, iii; Michel Ragon: Le dessin...
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Faust at War
Journal article by Jan Mieszkowski; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 48, 2009
Subjects: Authors, German--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, German--Works, Faust (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, German romanticism--Criticism and interpretation, German writers--Criticism and interpretation, German writers--Works, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von--Criticism and interpretation, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von--Works, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Influence
...a fierce exchange of artillery fire at Valmy, followed by a brief clash that halted...notes the far-reaching significance of Valmy, a battle historians privilege as the...Meisters Theatrical Calling. (10.) The Valmy cannonade took place on September 20...
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How Nationalisms Spread: Eastern Europe Adrift the Tides and Cycles of Nationalist Contention
Journal article by Mark R. Beissinger; Social Research, Vol. 63, 1996
Subjects: Social Sciences
...contingently . . . Had Louis XVI compromised, had the Brissotins foreseen that war would destroy them, had the French troops at Valmy run away (as they were expected to do), had the Directory not produced a consummate general who proved an insensitive conqueror...
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Gabriel Peri and the Poetry of Commemoration
Journal article by J.H. King; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 26, 1996
Subjects: Dissenters--Appreciation, Peri, Gabriel--Appreciation, Poetry--Analysis
...particularly familiar in the context of French historical experience. Peri too - following a line from Jeanne dArc to Peguy, via Valmy and the Commune - was perceived to have the power to synthesize ideological currents deeply rooted in the national psyche...
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Militarism and Modern Society
Magazine article by Charles Townshend; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 17, Winter 1993
Subjects: Militarism--History
...called a cannonade rather than a battle) at Valmy in September 1792, when the Austrian and...new era in the history of the world." Valmy was proof that ordinary people could make...unwinnable, as such. (At the 1914 version of Valmy, there were no civilian spectators, aside...
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Twilight of the West
Magazine article by John O'Sullivan; The National Interest, Spring 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...account of his experience at the Battle of Valmy, where a professional Prussian army was...began to be imagined about the time of Valmy, was realized in 1941, and started to...modern divided self at about the time of Valmy, and has been both growing in power and...
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Round and About: January
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 49, January 1999
...architectural illustrations and artefacts. France Goya, un Regard Libre Until March 14th Palais des Beaux-Arts 18 bis rue de Valmy 59000, Lille (03 20 06 78 00) The newly restored Palais des Beaux-Arts will host the first major exhibition of paintings...
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Round and About: March 2002
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 52, March 2002
...generated by the monuments. Berthe Morisot (1841-95) March 10th to June 9th Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille 18 bis rue de Valmy 59000 Lille, France Tel: +33 0320 06 78 00 www.fnac.com Morisot was a central member of the group of artists who initiated...
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Ange Leccia
Magazine article by Tom Moody; Artforum International, Vol. 31, January 1993
Subjects: Ange Leccia--Exhibitions, Photography--Exhibitions, Sculpture--Exhibitions
...found event." Violence turns geometric as a stately procession of orange explosions rips across the lush countryside near Valmy, France. In counterpoint to these plumes of smoke, cylindrical stacks of film canisters in a work from 1992 recall the integers...
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Why Go to the Salon If It Can Come to You?
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, April 23, 2010
Subjects: Beauty salons, Beauty shops
...surprise that many people in the beauty industry are looking to make a side dollar or two. Marina Valmy de Haydu, director of the Christine Valmy International Schools, estimates that salons pay their employees around 40 percent to 60 percent...
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WHAT IF WE'D LOST? Guillotines in Whitehall. A French Empire on Which the Sun Never Set
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 29, 2005
...were properly armed, and virtually none had the military experience of the French veterans who had defeated the Prussians at Valmy, the royalists at Toulon, the Austrians at Castiglione, Arcole and Rivoli, and the Mamelukes at the Pyramids. Spirited...
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VIVE LE SEASIDE; France Has Great Beaches to Go with the Great Weather IT HAS Style, It Has Sunshine and a Coastline Stretching 3,500 Miles.The French Seaside Is Right on Our Doorstep and It's as Cheap as Spain's Costas with Much Better Food. and la Mer Also Comes with a Generous Dollop of Gallic Glamour Says GILL WILLIAMS..
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), June 3, 2007
...border. Fill the boot with local wine from several local producer s, such as the Cave Domaine Deprade-Jorda and Chateau de Valmy. MUST DO: Go for walks in the villages two nature reserves, Mas Larrieu nature reserve and dunes by the sea and La Massane...
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From East to West, Former Backwaters Get the Style Treatment. PROPERTY ON SUNDAY
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 6, 2005
...overlooking the canal, with commercial space on the ground floor. Prices start at pounds sterling235,000. Accountants Dominique Valmy and Julian Parry, both 29, were among early purchasers, paying pounds sterling249,000 for a huge twobedroom space. Were...
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ESPANA SCORE FAVOR! as the World Cup Kicks off We Test Camping Brits' Two Favourites to Find a Winner
Newspaper article; The People (London, England), June 11, 2006
...SPAIN 1 THINGS TO DO THERE is loads to do - from wandering around quaint harbours and watching birds o prey at Chateau de Valmy to splashing around at nearby Aqualand water park. For water sports lovers theres plenty of windsurfing, canoeing, water...
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encyclopedia articles on: Valmy  - 6 results

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Valmy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VALMY valme , village (1993 est. pop. 293), Marne dept., NE France, in the Argonne region. The "cannonade of Valmy," a Franco-Prussian artillery skirmish, was fought near there on Sept. 20, 1792. This was the first important engagement...
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Kellermann, FranÇois Christophe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Wars when he and General Dumouriez stopped the Prussians at Valmy (1792). In the Reign of Terror, he was accused of treason...not convicted. Napoleon made him senator (1799) and duke of Valmy (1808). Rallying (1814) to Louis XVIII, Kellermann was...
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French Revolutionary Wars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...resigned. Their able successors, the generals Dumouriez and Kellermann , turned the tide when they repulsed the invaders at Valmy (Sept. 20). Dumouriez advanced on the Austrian Netherlands (Belgium), and he seized it after the battle of Jemappes...
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Dumouriez, Charles FranÇois
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...place as an army commander when the latter was charged with treason (Aug., 1792). Dumouriez helped defeat the Prussians at Valmy (Sept., 1792), drove the Austrians from Belgium at Jemappes (Nov., 1792), and invaded the Netherlands (Feb., 1793...
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Charles William Ferdinand
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...fated march into France in 1792 and issued a manifesto threatening severe reprisals against the revolutionaries. Defeated at Valmy (1792), in 1793 he routed the French at Kaiserslautern and Pirmasens. He again commanded the Prussian armies in 1806 and...
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