Progress of War Manufacture 1793
- Created by: EBeckett
- Created on: 09-05-18 22:05
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- France in War (11)
- New manufacturing
- developed to increase supply of gunpowder
- factories and workshops across the country issued with manuals on how to manufacture steel.
- weapons manufacture began in Paris in Oct 1793
- professional training centre for 800 studentsset up at Meudon
- Commanding officers
- Saint-Just replaced 'aristocratic' generals with new, younger 'roturier' commanders where committed to revolution
- total of 17 generals executed in 1793
- including Custine- who had led French forces to Rhine.
- Accused of passing secrets to enemy
- Houchard included (had commanded Army of the North since August 1792)
- for failure to pursue the enemy
- including Custine- who had led French forces to Rhine.
- to replace them Carnot found Jean-Baptiste Jourdan to command Army of the North
- Saint-Just found Louis-Lazare Hoche to command Army of the Moselle in Oct
- As well as Jean-Charles Pichegru- appointed as commander of division of Upper Rhine.
- Saint-Just found Louis-Lazare Hoche to command Army of the Moselle in Oct
- Overall, Carnot improved the situation of army
- Military materials
- Saint-Andre (former Protestant pastor) given task for reorganising France's naval defences.
- materials requisitioned, produce and animals re-allocated
- military recruitment and training stepped up
- France had over a million men in arms by 1794 and 14 armies were well-trained and supplied
- Discipline tightened and representants-en-mission saw morale was kept up and loyalty maintained
- France had over a million men in arms by 1794 and 14 armies were well-trained and supplied
- French victories
- In Sept 1793, siege of Dunkirk lifted
- October, Battle of Wattignies was won by Jourdan and Carnot; 3 Austrian regiments destroyed
- Armies drove back invaders in the Pyrenees and on Alpine Frontier
- Internal counter-revolutionary and federalist revolts crushed in autumn 1793
- In Oct CPS proclaimed: 'the cowardly satellites of tyranny have fled before you'
- New manufacturing
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