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The battle of Wissembourg was a battle of the War of the First Coalition during the French Revolutionary Wars. It occurred on 26 to 27 December 1793 at Wissembourg between French Revolutionary troops under general Lazare Hoche and a joint Austro-Prussian force.

The Lines of Weissenburg were stormed in 13 October 1793 by the Prussians and Saxons under the Austrian general Wurmser.^[1][2] The allies were in their turn dispossessed by Hoche on 26 December and forced to retreat behind the Rhine.^[3][4][5]

It was a French victory and enabled French forces to take over the whole of Alsace. It also led to a definitive break between the Austrians and the Prussians, who both blamed each other for the defeat. The battle's name is engraved on the north pillar of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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