Battle of Erquelinnes

Quand

20 mai 1794 – 24 mai 1794

Type

Bataille

Coordonnées

50.30° N, 4.12° E

Description

1794 battle of the War of the First Coalition

Battle of the War of the First Coalition

The Battle of Erquelinnes or Battle of Péchant was part of the Flanders Campaign during the War of the First Coalition, and saw a Republican French army jointly led by Jacques Desjardin and Louis Charbonnier try to defend a bridgehead on the north bank of the Sambre River against a combined Habsburg Austrian and Dutch army led by Franz Wenzel, Graf von Kaunitz-Rietberg.

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