title: Siege of Thionville (1792)
text: # Siege of Thionville (1792)
  
  The siege of Thionville was a battle during the War of the First Coalition.
  
  ## Siege
  
  It began at Thionville on 24 August 1792. A coalition force of 20,000 Austrians and 16,000 French Royalist troops under Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg failed to take the town, commanded by Georges Félix de Wimpffen, and raised the siege on 16 October. One of the French royalist troops was François-René de Chateaubriand, who was wounded in the battle.
  
  ## Aftermath
  
  In the aftermath of the siege the National Convention declared that Thionville had "deserved well of the fatherland" - it named Place de Thionville and Rue de Thionville in Paris after the victory.
  
  ## Legacy
  
  Louis-Emmanuel Nadine created the lyrical drama Siége de Thionville in 1793.
  
  