One of the first usages of the term can be found in the 1803 Tribunat report, titled "Résultats des guerres, des négociations et des traités qui ont préced́é et suivi la coalition contre la France" ("Results of the Wars, Negotiations and Treaties that preceded and followed the Coalition against France"). About the situation in April 1793, when General Dumouriez had just been defeated at Neerwinden and defected to Austria, causing despair in France, it states: "Les événements de cette époque sont les plus pénibles à décrire de tous ceux qui ont signalé "les guerres de la coalition"." ("The events of that time are the most painful to describe of all those that marked "the wars of the coalition".")