One of the

French Revolutionary armies The French Revolutionary Army () was the French land force that fought the French Revolutionary Wars from 1792 to 1802. In the beginning, the French armies were characterised by their revolutionary fervour, their poor equipment and their great nu ...

, the Army of the

Pyrenees The Pyrenees are a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. They extend nearly from their union with the Cantabrian Mountains to Cap de Creus on the Mediterranean coast, reaching a maximum elevation of at the peak of Aneto. ...

(''Armée des Pyrénées'') was created by a decree of the

National Convention The National Convention () was the constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for its first three years during the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the ...

dated 1 October 1792 and formed out of the right wing of the Armée du Midi. At the outbreak of the

War of the Pyrenees The War of the Pyrenees, also known as War of Roussillon or War of the Convention, was the Pyrenees, Pyrenean front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic. It pitted Revolutionary France against the kingdoms of History ...

with the Kingdom of

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, a decree of 30 April 1793 separated the Armée des Pyrénées into the

Army of the eastern Pyrenees The Army of the Eastern Pyrenees (''Armée des Pyrénées Orientales'') was one of the French Revolutionary armies. It fought against the Kingdom of Spain in Roussillon, the Cerdanya and Catalonia during the War of the Pyrenees. This army and th ...

(''Armée des Pyrénées orientales'') and the Army of the western Pyrenees (''Armée des Pyrénées occidentales'').

Commanders

* General Joseph Servan de Gerbey, 3 October 1792 – 16 February 1793 * General Louis Dubouquet, 17 February – 4 April 1793 (interim) * General Servan de Gerbey, 5 April 1793 – 30 April 1793 ** General Mathieu Henri Marchant de La Houlière, from 17 April commander of the eastern division, committed suicide shortly after the loss of

Céret Céret (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales Departments of France, department in southern France. It is the capital of the historic Comarques of Catalonia, Catalan comarca of Vallespir. Geography The town lies in ...

on 20 AprilPrats, ''Ceret'' ** General Claude Souchon de Chameron, 25 April (provisional)

Notes

Sources

''La Prise de Ceret par le Comte de la Union'' by Bernard Prats in French
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