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Person

Jean Baptiste Jourdan

Events
1
Episodes
3
Years
1794

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Jean Baptiste Jourdan, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Battle of Aldenhoven

    1794

    Role: Commander of the Republican French army

    1. 1 October 1794 · Düren, on the Roer RiverCrossing of the Roer at Düren

      On 1 October Jourdan ordered Schérer's Right Wing to cross the Roer and seize Düren, winning a key crossing after heavy fighting.

    2. 2 October 1794 · Battle of Aldenhoven / Battle of the RoerFrench victory at the Battle of Aldenhoven

      Jourdan's French army defeated Clerfayt's Habsburg army defending the Roer line on 2 October 1794.

    3. after 2 October 1794 · Roer River line and west bank of the RhineAustrian retreat concedes the west bank of the Rhine

      Clerfayt's withdrawal from the Roer conceded control of the west bank of the Rhine to France; the battle was the Army of Sambre-and-Meuse's last advance of 1794.

Sources

  1. Battle of Aldenhoven (1794) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-19