NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Battle of Tourcoing (1794)

The Battle of Tourcoing was fought near the town of Tourcoing, just North of Lille in northeastern France on May 18, 1794 and resulted the victory of the French under General Joseph Souham and General Moreau against the British under the Duke of York and the Austrians under General the Prince of Coburg.^[1] Combatants Great Britain Austria Prussia Spain[1] Russia Sardinia Ottoman Empire Portugal Dutch Republic[2] France The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states. ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Tourcoing (Dutch: ) is a city and commune of northern France, in the Nord dÃ©partement, located near the cities of Lille and Roubaix and the Belgian border. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... 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Under the temporary leadership of General Joseph Souham, General Pichegru's Armee du Nord clashed with an Austro-British-Hanoverian force at Tourcoing. Despite a slight advantage in numbers, the 74,000 Allied troops under Saxe-Coburg were out-led and out fought by France's 70,000 troops. Gen.Souham devised a strategic pincer movement consisting of his division (30,000) attacking Southwards from Courtrai & Gen.Bonnaud's division (20,000) Northeastwards from Lille, thus catching the separated allied columns of Busche, Otto & the Duke of York between them. Moreau's single brigade under Gen.Vandamme (8,000) held off the assault of Gen.Clerfayt across the R.Lys from the West. French casualties were six guns and 3,000 men, while their enemies suffered 5,500 troops lost and some 60 pieces of artillery. It was a sprawling engagement fought out over many square miles of countryside just West of the River Scheldt in Flanders, & together with the engagement at Tournai, the following day & Gen.Jourdan's victory at Fleurus later that year marked the start of the allied evacuation of it's forces across the Rhine & French supremacy in Western Europe. Charles Pichegru (February 16, 1761 _ April 15, 1804), French general, was born at Arbois, or, according to Charles Nodier, at Les Planches, near Lons-le-Saulnier. ... Fleurus is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. ...

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