What the records say
- When
- 1 Jun 1794 – 18 Jun 1794
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 50.85° N, 2.88° E
- Description
- 1794 during the Flanders Campaign
Siege of Ypres (1794)
Siege of the War of the First Coalition
The siege of Ypres saw a Republican French army commanded by Jean-Charles Pichegru invest the fortress of Ypres and its 7,000-man garrison composed of Habsburg Austrians under Paul von Salis and Hessians led by Heinrich von Borcke and Georg von Lengerke. French troops under Joseph Souham fended off three relief attempts by the corps of François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt.
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