What the records say
- When
- 10 May 1794 – 12 May 1794
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 50.83° N, 3.27° E
- Description
- 1794 battle in the War of the First Coalition
Battle of Courtrai (1794)
Battle in the War of the First Coalition
The Battle of Courtrai saw a Republican French army under Jean-Charles Pichegru oppose Coalition forces commanded by François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt. The battle was fought as part of French efforts to defeat an Allied attempt to recapture Courtrai, which the French captured in the opening days of their 1794 offensive in the Low Countries.
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