The Battle of Neerwinden (18 March 1793) took place near the village of Neerwinden in present-day Belgium between the Austrians under Prince Josias of Coburg and the French under General Dumouriez. March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Neerwinden is a village in Belgium in the province of Liege, a few miles southeast of Tirlemont, which gives its name to two great battles, the first fought in 1693 between the Anglo-Allied army under William III of England and the French under the duke of Luxemburg, and the... Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (26 December 1737 – 26 February 1815), a son of Duke Josias Francis of Coburg (German: Koburg) became a famous general of the Holy Roman Empire. ... Charles François Dumouriez Général Dumouriez Charles François Dumouriez (January 25, 1739 - March 14, 1823) was a French general. ...

One should not confuse this battle with the Battle of Neerwinden (1693) fought a century earlier. The Battle of Landen (or Neerwinden), in the current Belgian province of Flemish Brabant, was a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance, fought in the Netherlands on July 29, 1693 between the French army of Marshal Luxembourg and the Allied army of King William III of England. ...

The battle marked the end of Dumouriez's attempt to overrun the Low Countries and the beginning of the Allies’ invasion of France. The Austrians under Coburg, advancing from Maestricht in the direction of Brussels, encountered the heads of the hurriedly assembling French army at Tirlemont on 15 March 1793, and took up a position between Neerwinden and Neerlanden. On 18 March, however, after a little preliminary fighting, Coburg drew back a short distance and re-arranged his army on a more extended front between Racour and Dormael, thus parrying the enveloping movement begun by the French from Tirlemont. Dumouriez was consequently compelled to fight after all on parallel fronts, and though in the villages themselves the individuality and enthusiasm of the French soldier compensated for his inadequate training and indiscipline, the greater part of the front of contact was open ground, where the superiority of the veteran Austrian regulars prevailed. In these conditions an attempt to win a second Jemappes with numerical odds of 11 to 10 instead of 2 to 1 in favour of the attack was foredoomed to disaster, and the repulse of the French Revolutionary Army was the signal for its almost complete dissolution. The Low Countries, the historical region of de Nederlanden, are the countries (see Country) on low-lying land around the delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse (Maas) rivers. ... Maastricht (Limburgish and city dialect: Mestreech; French: Maestricht) is a municipality, and capital of the province of Limburg. ... Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (French: Bruxelles, Dutch: Brussel, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium, the French community of Belgium, the Flemish community and of the European Union. ... Tienen (French: Tirlemont) is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... Lincent is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège. ... Zoutleeuw is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. ... The Battle of Jemappes (November 6, 1792) took place near the town of Jemappes in Hainaut, Belgium, near Mons. ...

Neerwinden proved a great disaster, but not a great battle. Its details merely show the impossibility of fighting on the 18th century system with ill-trained troops. The methods by which such troops could compass victory, the way to fight a sans culotte battle, evolved only later. (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...

• Original text from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
• Tirlemont is now the city of Tienen
• Neerwinden and Neerlanden are now parts of the municipality of Landen