What the records say
- When
- 27 Oct 1789
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 51.32° N, 4.95° E
- Description
- 1789 battle between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Belgian émigré army
Battle of Turnhout (1789)
Battle during Brabant Revolution
The Battle of Turnhout was a decisive military engagement between Belgian revolutionary and Austrian forces at Turnhout in the Austrian Netherlands. It was the first engagement of the Brabant Revolution and took place shortly after the revolutionary (patriot) army of Jean-André van der Mersch crossed the border from the Dutch Republic where it had previously been in exile.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Turnhout: The Austrian army is beaten by Brabant revolutionaries”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “le chef de l’armée belge, Van der Mersch, bat les Autrichiens à Turnhout”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page