Louis XVI's letter not only showed his determination, but also fulfilled his hopes for Napoleon.
After William arrived in the Netherlands, the original somewhat wavering Dutch government is also unified at this moment, after all, William personally led more than 90,000 troops to come, and in addition to the British troops transported to the Netherlands some time ago, the total strength of the Anglo-Prussian coalition army exceeded 100,000 people, such a scale, coupled with Prussia's prestige in previous wars, made the Netherlands optimistic about the Anglo-Prussian coalition market.
Therefore, after urgent deliberations, the Dutch government decided to join the Anglo-Prussian army, which reached 130,000 men.
After entering the territory of the Netherlands, for the command circle of the coalition army, the three high-level consultations, and finally although William was still young, as the country with the largest number of troops in the coalition, and William's own status as the king made William the supreme commander of the three alliances.
In the Triple Alliance, the position second only to William is Ernst, and the Hanoverian army under Ernst plus the British ** team also has nearly 40,000 people, while the Dutch army has the lowest status because of the least troops.
Despite this, William V, the hereditary consul of the Dutch provinces, was listed as deputy commander of the coalition along with Ernst because of his position and the fact that the Netherlands was the largest rear of the coalition expedition.
Unlike most other countries, although the Netherlands is an autonomous republic of the United Provinces, it does not have a king because of the power of the Orange family in the country.
But there was a creative emergence of a hereditary consul, whose power was only a little smaller than that of the king, except for the name.
This William V and William were even relatives.
Of course, most of the current rulers of European countries are relatives, if you want to say, in fact, William and Louis XVI can still be related, after all, William's wife Anna is the niece of Louis XVI's queen.
March 26, 1793 The Triple Alliance officially swore its army in Amsterdam, and the 130,000-strong army headed straight for Antwerp.
Sitting on his horse and looking at the endless army, Wilhelm felt a domineering spirit in his heart, under his command not only the Prussian army but also the armies of England, the Netherlands, and the Rhine states.
If Napoleon could be defeated in this battle, he William would undoubtedly become a new legend on the European continent.
However, from the time I entered the Austrian Netherlands, I was affected by the weather.
To a certain extent, this affected the speed of the advance of the coalition forces.
Although William's army had a great advantage, William never underestimated Napoleon, and although William's army was large this time, it was in addition to the Prussian army of more than 40,000 people.
Most of the rest are the armies of various countries.
And the combat effectiveness of these armies is also a key point that worries William.
There were a large number of troops on the left and right of the coalition to reconnoitre, this was William's death order after the dispatch of troops, and each squad of scout cavalry had to report its position and situation within three hours, which William hoped to use in this way to isolate the possibility of Napoleon's surprise attack.
As William thought, Napoleon had planned a surprise attack after the coalition had left the Netherlands, because if the raid was successful, even if the coalition still had an advantage in numbers, the morale of the French army would be enough to offset this advantage to some extent.
However, because of the tight defense of the coalition forces, Napoleon had to abandon the idea of a surprise attack.
But a number of Napoleons did not give up.
The situation is now that the coalition is in the light and Napoleon is in the dark.
He can adjust his arrangement with ease.
Because Antwerp was directly threatened by British naval artillery, Napoleon did not expect to rely on Antwerp as the center for resistance against the coalition forces, although the French army conquered Antwerp.
In Napoleon's plan, the main battlefield of his and the Allied forces would be the line from Nicholas to Brussels, and before that, the French army had also laid out a number of defensive lines, but these lines were only to maximize the consumption of the Allied forces.
And just when the scouts on both sides were fighting on the battlefield, Alexander, who was far away in Austria, also threw nearly 100,000 troops from Tuha from the front into the annihilation of Franz.
However, Tuha did not want to be involved in this troubled waters, in Tuha's view, this was an internal struggle between the descendants of the Habsburgs, and as the duke of the kingdom, he had always guarded the borders of the kingdom, and he really did not want to meet his own compatriots, so Tuha soon asked Alexander to retire.
But for Tuha's request for retirement, Alexander simply could not agree.
If Tuha were not for him, who would have been in charge of the largest army in Austria at the moment.
Originally, according to Alexander's assumption, with the 100,000 army of the Grand Duke of Tuha, then Franz's rebellion would definitely be quelled in a short time, but what Alexander did not expect was that although Tuha was the commander of the army, a considerable part of the army supported Franz, especially after Franz showed the family emblem ring.
After all, before the war with Prussia, the Grand Duke of Tuha had always led his army to garrison the southern part of Austria at the border with the Ottomans, and the policy of local conscription made the army of the Grand Duke of Tuha full of soldiers from these regions.
When Archduke Tuha arrived at the Bohemian front, he was supplemented by soldiers from southern Austria and Vienna.
Franz had an overwhelming advantage over Alexander among the southern aristocracy, and many of the officers in the Tuha army were from the southern aristocracy of the empire, and how could these officers lead the army to suppress Franz when their own family supported Franz.
In addition, because of the war for more than a year, homesickness spread among the army under Tuha, and this homesickness is directly manifested in the daily desertion of the army.
Indeed, in this army, Tuha has incomparable prestige.
But successive defeats to Prussia had greatly weakened Tuha's prestige.
When Tuha's army arrived on the outskirts of Graz, the army underwent a great change, and more than 30,000 troops actually swore allegiance to Franz.
And the remaining soldiers in Tuha's army are also unwarlike.
Under these circumstances, Tuha had no choice but to stop his army in its place and at the same time apply to Alexander again to return to his homeland.
When Alexander of Vienna received the report from Tuha, his whole person was like an enraged lion, and he did not expect that even the army of the Grand Duke of Tuha would be affected so much.
This also shows what kind of prestige Franz had in southern Austria, and this prestige even gave Alexander a hint of fear in his heart.
"Franz must be suppressed as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable!"
With such a decision, Alexander decided to personally lead his army to Graz to exterminate Franz.
Otherwise, the longer the time drags on, the more support Franz will get.
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When the time comes, once he overwhelms Alexander in strength, even if Alexander has the title of Imperial Regent and Archduke of Austria, it will be useless!
Alexander drew 20,000 Hungarian troops from Vienna and some of the nobles he had already subdued, and Alexander pulled an army of 25,000 men and rushed to Graz.
In March 1793, when Wilhelm was leading his army to the Netherlands, Alexander joined forces with Tuha on the outskirts of Graz.
After the meeting.
Alexander agreed to Tuha's request to retire.
At the same time, Alexander appointed Karl as commander of the Austrian army to reorganize the army.
Thanks to the efforts of Karl and Alexander, in just one week, the 70,000 army completed the task of reorganization, and after the reorganization, Karl personally led 50,000 troops to the city of Graz, while Alexander led the remaining 20,000 troops to sit not far behind Karl's army.
But when Graz was facing a threat, Franz led his army away from Graz and led his army directly to meet Karl's army.
The reason why he took the initiative to lead the army to meet Karl's department was precisely under the vigorous propaganda during this time.
The defectors to Franz outnumbered Alexander's so-called counterinsurgency forces, and most of the troops that had separated from Tuha joined Franz's command.
This also gave Franz the confidence to fight with Karl in the field.
On a plain more than a dozen miles north of Graz, Karl and Franz formally engaged in a battle between Karl's army of 50,000 on one side and Franz's army of nearly 80,000 on the other.
Although Franz's forces were superior, because Franz's army was a temporary patchwork, although more than 40,000 of them were regular troops who had broken away from Tuha, the rest of the army was mostly a rabble.
After arranging the formation, Karl's army took the lead in the attack, 20,000 infantry rushed towards Franz's army neatly, and in the face of Karl's first hand, Franz ordered his 30,000 miscellaneous troops to charge against the 20,000 men sent by Karl.
Unlike Karl, a considerable part of Franz's troops were poorly armed, so Franz could only send these cannon fodder to consume Karl's energy and ammunition to a certain extent.
Although Karl's troops had already prepared, the 30,000 miscellaneous troops still caused considerable trouble to Karl, which not only obstructed the sight of Karl's army, but also caused a certain degree of turmoil in Karl's formation.
This turmoil quickly subsided, but when 30,000 men were wiped out by Karl's troops, Franz personally commanded the remaining 50,000 troops to participate in the attack.
And when Franz invested in the cuirassiers that he had spent a lot of money on, Karl's situation became even more disadvantaged, knowing that Karl's command did not have any mobile force at all except for a part of the Magyar cavalry allocated by Alexander, and most of the cavalry of the Austrian Bohemian Front was consumed in the war against the Prussians.
It was obviously impossible to expect these Magyar light cavalry to withstand the charge of Franz's cuirassiers, so a gap was quickly opened in the center of Karl's headquarters.