Rochefort County

This article is about the specific polity Rochefort County and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was a lordship, and later a county, of the Holy Roman Empire located in Belgium.

Establishment

January 1495: Rochefort is elevated to a county.

Chronology

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1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

1.1.War of the First Coalition

Were a series of wars between the Kingdom of France (later the French Republic) and several European Monarchies. The French Revolution had deteriorated the relations of France with the other European countries, that tried several times to invade France in order to crash the revolutionary government.

January 1796: In 1795, the territory of Rochefort was annexed by the First French Republic.

1.1.1.Flanders Campaign

Was a French military campaign in the Flanders.

December 1794: By 28 December the French had occupied the Bommelwaard and the Lands of Altena.

June 1795: Territory evacuated by the French at the end of the Flanders Campaign. The surrender of Luxembourg on 7 June 1795 concluded the French conquest of the Low Countries, thus marking the end of the Flanders Campaign.

Disestablishment

January 1796: In 1795, the territory of Rochefort was annexed by the First French Republic.

Selected Sources

Guthrie, W. (1798): A New geographical, historical and commercial grammar and present state of the several kingdoms of the world, printed for Charles Dilly and G.G. and J. Robinson, p. 473

Kreins, J. (2003): Histoire du Luxembourg, Paris (France), p. 63