3-085-728 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Military Ballooning a Century Ago: the French victory at the Battle of Fleurus, June 26, 1794, (1898). 'From an old print. In the defeat of the Allies under the Prince of Coburg by the French revolutionary army under Jourdan, who formed a junction with the armies of the Moselle, the Ardennes, and the North, the French used a balloon for reconnoitring.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.