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    The Battle of Hondschoote took place during the Flanders Campaign of the Campaign of 1793 in the French Revolutionary Wars. It was fought during operations...
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    England, taking their skills to benefit France's rivals. The battle of Hondschoote in 1793 was a key event in saving the French First Republic from an...
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    Following his victory at the Battle of Hondschoote and consequent relief of Dunkirk, Houchard turned from his pursuit of the Duke of York, intending to hold...
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    requests were denied. After the Battle of Hondschoote from 6 to 8 September 1793 the British were forced to raise the Siege of Dunkirk, and to fall back upon...
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  • of the Austrian Succession Battle of Hohenlinden – 1800 – French Revolutionary Wars Battle of Hondschoote (1793) – French Revolutionary Wars Battle of...
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  • Michel Salomon Dumesny (1739–1803), French general during the Battle of Hondschoote (1793) Dumesnil (disambiguation) This page lists people with the surname...
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    National Gendarmerie (category National law enforcement agencies of France)
    Five battles are remembered on the flag of the Gendarmerie: Battle of Hondschoote (1793): Four hundred gendarmes of the 32nd Division (equivalent of a regiment...
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    Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (category Members of the Chamber of Peers of the Bourbon Restoration)
    division at the Battle of Hondschoote, in which he was wounded in the chest. On 22 September, he was named to lead the Army of the North. Three of his predecessors...
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  • September - French Royalist victory over French Republicans Battle of Hondschoote (1793) 6–8 September – French army, under General Houchard, defeats...
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    4th Hussar Regiment (France) (category Hussar regiments of France)
    the War of the 1st and 2nd Coalitions. Such notable battles include, Valmy (1792), Croix-aux-Bois (1792), Maastricht (1793), Hondschoote (1793), Flerus...
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    Wattignies and Wissembourg. British land forces were defeated at the Battle of Hondschoote in September. 1794 brought increased success to the revolutionary...
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  • Georg Wilhelm von dem Bussche (category German military personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
    000-strong garrison of Dunkirk, Houchard had 45,800 troops available for the operation. The Battle of Hondschoote was fought on 6–8 September 1793. On the 6th...
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  • officer wrote to the Morning Chronicle just two days after the battle of Hondschoote: "There is but one sentiment throughout the whole camp. If the gun-boats...
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    Battle of Wattignies (15–16 October 1793) saw a French army commanded by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan attack a Coalition army directed by Prince Josias of...
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    Wilhelm von Freytag (category Field marshals of Germany)
    covering column. On 6 September he was driven back by Houchard at the Battle of Hondschoote, where he was wounded and captured, but rescued the following day...
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  • Revolutionary Wars) Battle of Chantonnay – 1793 – War in the Vendée (French Revolutionary Wars) Battle of Hondschoote1793 – War of the First Coalition...
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  • September, Nicolas Houchard defeated the Duke of York at Hondschoote, forcing him to abandon the siege of Dunkirk. In October Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, taking...
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    Jacques Fromentin (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
    After leading his battalion at Hondschoote, Fromentin was very rapidly promoted to general of division in September 1793 and led a division at Wattignies...
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    engagements, such as the Siege of Valenciennes in July 1793, but was defeated at the Battle of Hondschoote in September 1793. In the 1794 campaign he gained...
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  • Florent Joseph Duquesnoy (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
    despite the pleas of his brother not to promote him. After the Battle of Wattignies on 15–16 October 1793, he was transferred to the Army of the West on 27...
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    under command of Jean Nicolas Houchard defeated York's exposed left flank under the Hanoverian general Freytag at the Battle of Hondschoote, forcing York...
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    Dunkirk resulting in the Battle of Hondschoote. Activities on the right (southern) theatre of the war in Flanders centred on the Siege of Le Quesnoy. Coburg...
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    Campaign in 1793. His first taste of action was at Famars on 23 May. He was wounded and captured at the Battle of Hondschoote 6 September, but was quickly...
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    Jean Nicolas Houchard (category 1793 deaths)
    main protagonist of the French victories at the battle of Hondschoote against British forces under the Duke of York and at the battle of Menin against Dutch...
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    Sir William Erskine, 1st Baronet (category British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
    Siege of Dunkirk from 25 August to 10 September, and commanded the retreat to Furnes after the Battle of Hondschoote. Erskine was given command of the army...
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  • Henry Anderson Morshead (category Year of birth uncertain)
    of Valenciennes (1793) in June and July, the Siege of Dunkirk (1793) in August and September, and the battle of Battle of Hondschoote 8 September. He was...
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    Guillaume Brune (category Members of the Chamber of Peers of the Hundred Days)
    becoming a friend of Georges Danton. Brune fought in Bordeaux during the Federalist revolts, and at Hondschoote and Fleurus. In 1793, Brune was appointed...
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    René Levasseur (category Regicides of Louis XVI)
    Army of the North and his horse was shot from under him at the Battle of Hondschoote. He was tasked with restoring order in Beauvais and Oise, but was...
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    at Hondschoote and Wattignies. The new class of military leaders included a young colonel named Napoleon Bonaparte, who was appointed commander of artillery...
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    The siege of Bellegarde commenced on 23 May 1793 and ended on 24 June 1793 when Colonel Boisbrulé's French garrison surrendered the Fort de Bellegarde...
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