Battle of Trippstadt Begins

Date: July 13, 1794 • Location: Trippstadt, Germany

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1794.

The Battle of Trippstadt between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria began.

The Battle of Trippstadt was a relatively minor French military action in 1794 during the War of the First Coalition. The clash between the French Republican forces and the armies of Prussia and Habsburg Austria was fought over several days in the Palatinate Forest in the German states west of the Rhine River. Fighting occurred across a wide front and included action in Kaiserslautern, Trippstadt, Schänzel and Neustadt and along the banks of the Speyerbach River.