 The Army of the Rhine and Moselle experienced excruciating command problems in its early operations . The campaign of 1795 was entirely a French failure and the difficulties the army faced , especially in 1795 , had much to do with Pichegru 's own situation : his competition with both Moreau and Jourdan and his disaffection with the direction in which the revolution was headed . Originally a dedicated Jacobin , by 1794 , his own intrigues had placed him in command after he had undermined Lazare Hoche the previous year , insuring his own appointment as commander of this army . As the revolution waxed and waned in its <unk> , so did Pichegru : by late 1794 , he was leaning heavily toward the royalist cause . The Directory replaced him with Desaix , and later Moreau . Pichegru 's actions sometimes seemed inexplicable : although an associate , even a friend , of the recently executed Saint @-@ Just , Pichegru offered his services to the Thermidorian Reaction , and , after having received the title of Sauveur de la Patrie ( " Saviour of the Motherland " ) from the National Convention , subdued the sans @-@ culottes of Paris , when they rose in insurrection against the Convention on the bread riots of 1 April 1795 . 
