Ferraro, Alban/Clain, Geoffroy La Révolution Militaire de l’An II, 1794 entre Flandres et Moselle

The campaign of 1794 was initially the campaign of Year II (21 September 1793 - 20 September 1794) in the calendar of the French Revolution. It was new due to its immense number of men, challenges and materials and mobilised the efforts of the young Republic. It is also a time when great operational plans are maturing, the "système général" will be the synthesis and the matrix of the great campaigns to come.
The armies of 1794 were also the breeding ground for the great figures of the Empire. We find here the future leaders of the French army, the colonels Soult, Bernadotte or Ney in Jourdan's army of Sambre and Meuse, or the unfortunate Areopage of Moreau, the Mac Donalds, Souhams or Vandamme, all of whom were to pay more or less dearly for their closeness to Bonaparte's rivals. On the coalition side, Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, saw the Netherlands, while Mack, later defeated in 1805, was already Chief of the General Staff. Of all these names, Lazare Carnot, the planner and 'organiser of victory', is perhaps the best known revolutionary figure, but his work as an operational leader is less well known. It was under his leadership that the general system was created, the implementation of which he pursued until the breakthrough in Germany.