In the Rhine campaign of 1796, two First Coalition armies under the overall command of Archduke Charles of Austria defeated two French Republican armies in the last campaign of the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. The French military intended to capture Vienna and force the Holy Roman Emperor to surrender. The French Army of Sambre and Meuse commanded by Jean- Baptiste Jourdan opposed the Austrian Army of the Lower Rhine in the north. The Army of the Rhine and Moselle, led by Jean Victor Marie Moreau, fought the Austrian Army of the Upper Rhine in the south. At the Battle of Amberg on 24 August and the Battle of Würzburg on 3 September, Charles defeated Jourdan's northern army. During the winter the Austrians forced Moreau's army back to France. Despite Charles's success in the Rhineland, Austria lost the war when the French Army of Italy, commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte, advanced on Vienna, resulting in the Peace of Campo Formio.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1940:

Second World War: German troops captured Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, forcing British forces to evacuate via Dunkirk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Boulogne

1955:

Joe Brown and George Band, members of the British Kangchenjunga expedition, made the first ascent of the world's third-highest mountain but deliberately did not set foot on the summit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_British_Kangchenjunga_expedition

1967:

Having purged a group of rivals, Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Il Sung delivered the "May 25 teaching", entrenching his son Kim Jong Il as his designated successor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapsan_faction_incident

2020:

George Floyd, a black American man, was murdered (memorial pictured) during an arrest by a white police officer in Minneapolis, sparking protests in the U.S. and other countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

endue: 1. Senses relating to covering or putting on. 2. (transitive, also figurative) Of a person or thing: to take on (a different form); to adopt, to assume. 3. (transitive, archaic or literary, also figurative) To put on (a piece of clothing, etc.); to wear; also (followed by with), to clothe (someone) with something. 4. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To put (something) on top of a thing; to cover, to overlay. 5. Senses relating to giving some quality or thing. 6. (transitive, often passive voice, literary) Followed by with: to invest (someone or something) with a certain power, quality, etc. 7. (transitive, obsolete) 8. Of a quality, etc.: to be inherent in (something). 9. To supply (someone) with a thing. 10. Synonym of endow (“to invest (a person, group of people, or institution) with property”) 11. (rare) Synonym of bestow (“to impart (something) gratuitously; to grant”) 12. (obsolete) Senses relating to directing or leading. 13. (transitive) To raise or rear (someone); to bring up; also, to educate or instruct (someone). 14. (transitive, rare) To bring (something) to a certain condition. 15. (obsolete) Senses relating to taking in. 16. (transitive, falconry) Of a hawk: originally, to pass (food in the crop or gizzard) into the stomach; later, to digest (food). 17. (transitive, by extension) Of a person or animal: to digest (food). 18. (transitive, figurative) To take on; to absorb. 19. (intransitive, rare) Of food: to be digested. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/endue

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.   --Theodore Roethke https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roethke