One of the French Revolutionary armies, the Army of the Pyrenees

Pyrenees

The Pyrenees is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain...

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

National Convention

During the French Revolution, the National Convention or Convention, in France, comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly which sat from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 . It held executive power in France during the first years of the French First Republic...

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

Armée du Midi

The Army of Le Midi was a unit of the French army, stationed in the Le Midi region and created by royal decree of Louis XVI on 13 April 1792. It existed under this name for less than five months, and was split by a decree of the National Convention dated 1 October 1792 into the armée des Alpes...

. At the outbreak of the War of the Pyrenees

War of the Pyrenees

War of the Pyrenees refers to the Pyrenees front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic. Also known as Great War, War of Roussillon, or War of the Convention, it pitted Revolutionary France against the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal from March 1793 to July 1795 during the...

 with the Kingdom of Spain, a decree of 30 April 1793 separated the Armée des Pyrénées into the Army of the eastern Pyrenees (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
    Céret is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It is the capital of Vallespir historical Catalan comarca.-Geography:...
    
     on 20 April
  • General Claude Souchon de Chameron, 25 April (provisional)

Source

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