The Austrians made another attempt to invade France through the Wissembourg Gap in 1793, during the French Revolutionary Wars. In October of that year the Count of Wurmser defeated the French army guarding the border at the First Battle of Wissembourg and marched his forces south into Alsace, but in December he was defeated by General Pichegru at the Second Battle of Wissembourg and forced to retreat back into the Palatinate.