Explain the events happened in France in 1792
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For his invasion of France, Brunswick had only 29,000 Austrians and 42,000 Prussians available, together with 4,000–5,000 émigrés. Some 25,000 Austrians remained on guard in Belgium and 16,000 were tasked with defense of the Rhine. Small though these numbers may seem for the repulse of the French attack on Belgium and Brunswick’s march on Paris, the condition of the numerically superior French forces, not to mention the disorder in France, offered substantial hope of success to the allies. The regular French army was understrength and with 82,000 men (including garrisons) would find it difficult to sustain prolonged hostilities. Morale and efficiency too had suffered grievously from the emigration of more than half the officer corps. The defections to follow and the deepening divisions of the nation as the Revolution went on were to aggravate distrust, uncertainty, and indiscipline. The separately brigaded volunteer battalions—enrolled after July 11, 1792, to fight for one campaign—were better paid and, electing their own officers, had enthusiasm for the cause. However, they lacked training, equipment, arms, and discipline, and their presence provided a further solvent of the morale of the regulars, whom they frequently abandoned under fire. The reverses of the allies in 1792 were due primarily to the inadequacy of their own strategy and second to the efforts of the old army that the Revolution had inherited from the ancien régime.
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