 By 15 May 1793, the French were marching into Blieskastel, and on 27 July they burnt Karlsberg Castle near Homburg and began thrusting into the Glan valley, taking the German lands on the Rhine’s left bank over bit by bit for France.In 1794, when Prussian troops were in the Kusel area, the farmers from the Sickingen Heights drove their livestock before the French advance to Dietschweiler and Nanzweiler.On 26 July, Kusel was burnt down.