Question: During the Battle of Wattignes, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan had to endure interference from a French politician born in what year?
Context: In the Battle of Fleurus (26 June, 1794) Jean-Baptiste Jourdan's French army repulsed an attack by the combined Austro-Dutch army led by Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.  Tactically the battle was a draw but strategically it was a decisive French victory.  The battle led to the collapse of the Coalition position in the Austrian Netherlands. In 1794 the Battle of Arlon covers two separate episodes of the French Revolutionary Wars, one in April and the other in May, both at the stronghold of Arlon (also fought over at the First Battle of Arlon the previous year).  Both engagements pitched the French general Jean-Baptiste Jourdan against the Austrian general Johann von Beaulieu. The Battle of Höchst (11–12 October 1795) saw a Habsburg Austrian army under François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt outmaneuver a French Republican army led by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan.  At Höchst, the French attacked but were unable to dislodge an Austrian flanking column.  Afterward Jourdan's army retreated to the north.  The clash happened during the War of the First Coalition, part of a wider conflict known as the French Revolutionary Wars.  The district of Höchst is located within the city limits of Frankfurt in the state of Hesse in Germany.  Höchst is about 12 km west of the Frankfurt city center. The Army of the Danube (French: "Armée du Danube" ) was a field army of the French Directory in the 1799 southwestern campaign in the Upper Danube valley.  It was formed on 2 March 1799 by the simple expedient of renaming the Army of Observation, which had been observing Austrian movements on the border between French First Republic and the Holy Roman Empire.  It was commanded by General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, 1st Comte Jourdan (1762–1833). Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Count Carnot (13 May 1753 – 2 August 1823) was a French politician, engineer, freemason and mathematician.  He was known as the "Organizer of Victory" in the French Revolutionary Wars. Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, 1st Comte Jourdan (29 April 1762 – 23 November 1833), enlisted as a private in the French royal army and rose to command armies during the French Revolutionary Wars.  Emperor Napoleon I of France named him a Marshal of France in 1804 and he also fought in the Napoleonic Wars.  After 1815, he became reconciled to the Bourbon Restoration.  He was one of the most successful commanders of the French Revolutionary Army. Jean-Baptiste Solignac (15 March 1773 in Millau – 11 November 1850 in Montpellier) was a French general, and the brother-in-law of Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan.  He took part in the French Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and Portuguese Civil War as a Miguelist commander. The Battle of Wattignies (15–16 October 1793) saw a Republican French army commanded by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan attack a Coalition army directed by Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.  After two days of combat Jourdan's troops compelled the Habsburg Austrian covering force led by François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt to withdraw.  The War of the First Coalition victory allowed the French to raise the Siege of Maubeuge.  At a time when failed generals were often executed or imprisoned, Jourdan had to endure interference from Lazare Carnot from the Committee of Public Safety.  The village, renamed Wattignies-la-Victoire in honor of the important success, is located 9 km southeast of Maubeuge. The Battle of Fleurus, on 26 June 1794, was an engagement between the army of the First French Republic, under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan and the Coalition Army (Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburg Monarchy), commanded by Prince Josias of Coburg, in the most significant battle of the Flanders Campaign in the Low Countries during the French Revolutionary Wars.  Both sides had forces in the area of around 80,000 men but the French were able to concentrate their troops and defeat the First Coalition.  The Allied defeat led to the permanent loss of the Austrian Netherlands and to the destruction of the Dutch Republic.  The battle marked a turning point for the French army, which remained ascendant for the rest of the War of the First Coalition.  The French use of the reconnaissance balloon "l'Entreprenant" was the first military use of an aircraft that influenced the result of a battle. The Rhine Campaign of 1795 (April 1795 to January 1796) saw two Habsburg Austrian armies under the overall command of François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt defeat an attempt by two Republican French armies to cross the Rhine River and capture the Fortress of Mainz.  At the start of the campaign the French "Army of Sambre-et-Meuse" led by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan confronted Clerfayt's "Army of the Lower Rhine" in the north, while the French "Army of Rhin-et-Moselle" under Jean-Charles Pichegru lay opposite Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser's "Army of the Upper Rhine" in the south.  In August Jourdan crossed and quickly seized Düsseldorf.  The "Army of Sambre-et-Meuse" advanced south to the Main River, completely isolating Mainz.  Pichegru's army made a surprise capture of Mannheim so that both French armies held significant footholds on the east bank of the Rhine.
Answer: 1753