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    The Battle of Tourcoing (17–18 May 1794) saw a Republican French army directed by General of Division Joseph Souham defend against an attack by a Coalition...
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    "Villes Amies". tourcoing.fr (in French). Tourcoing. Retrieved 10 December 2019. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tourcoing. Tourcoing town council...
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    order of battle for the Battle of Tourcoing which was fought on 17–18 May 1794 between the First French Republic and the First Coalition. General of Division...
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    both Courtrai and Menin. On 10–12 May in the Battle of Courtrai and on 17–18 May in the Battle of Tourcoing, the Coalition army failed to dislodge French...
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    notable success at the Battle of Beaumont in April and another at the Battle of Willems in May but was defeated at the Battle of Tourcoing later that month...
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    1794. Leading a flanking column from the north, he fought at the Battle of Tourcoing on 17–18 May. A French force under Dominique Vandamme slowed his...
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    Joseph Souham (category French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars)
    army at the Battle of Tourcoing in May 1794. He served under Pichegru in Holland (1795), but in 1799 he fell into disgrace on suspicion of being involved...
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    Walloon town of Tournai in August 1793, he sustained a sabre wound to the head, which resulted in a disfiguring scar. During the Battle of Tourcoing in northern...
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  • Jacques Philippe Bonnaud (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
    Tourcoing and in the invasion of the Dutch Republic. He fought in the War in the Vendée the following year, briefly leading the Army of the Coasts of...
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  • list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are...
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    Jean Victor Marie Moreau (category Marshals of France)
    1794, and gave him command of the right wing of the army under Charles Pichegru, in Flanders. The 1794 Battle of Tourcoing established Moreau's military...
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  • Revolutionary Wars Battle of Toulouse – 721 – Islamic invasion of Gaul Battle of Toulouse – 1814 – Napoleonic Wars Battle of Tourcoing – 1794 – French Revolutionary...
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    Jean-Charles Pichegru (category Military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    Count of Clerfayt at Cassel, Menin and Courtrai, while his subordinate, Joseph Souham, defeated Prince Josias of Coburg in the battle of Tourcoing in May...
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    Nicolas Pierquin (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
    of the War of the First Coalition. He led a division-sized unit at the start of 1794. He led his troops during the battles of Willems and Tourcoing and...
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    the Battle of Tourcoing on 17–18 May this effort became a logistical disaster as communications broke down and columns were delayed. Only a third of the...
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    until the Battle of Garcia Hernandez in 1812. Despite the victory before Tournai, the Allied Army would be defeated at the Battle of Tourcoing on 18 May...
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  • James Hadfield (category British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    Hadfield's early years are unknown but he was severely injured at the Battle of Tourcoing in 1794. Before being captured by the French, he was struck eight...
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    Second Battle of Boulou (29 April to 1 May 1794) took place during the War of the Pyrenees, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. This battle saw the...
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    Sir William Erskine, 1st Baronet (category British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
    then commanded a 16-squadron cavalry reserve under York at the Battle of Tourcoing on 17–18 May. He again fought at Tournai soon after. Erskine commanded...
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    co-defendants also associated with the former ferme générale. May 18 – Battle of Tourcoing: French troops defeat British forces. May 21 – the French Revolutionary...
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  • Georg Wilhelm von dem Bussche (category German military personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
    officer of Hanoverian soldiers during the War of the First Coalition who famously led one of the Coalition columns at the Battle of Tourcoing. In 1743...
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  • Battle of Tourcoing 18 May – French army, under General Souham, defeats Austrians, British and Hanoverians under General Saxe-Coburg. Second Battle of...
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  • is a list of sieges, land and naval battles of the War of the First Coalition (20 April 1792 – 18 October 1797). It includes the battles of: the Low Countries...
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    Johann Nepomuk von Nostitz-Rieneck (category Austrian Empire commanders of the Napoleonic Wars)
    distinction in the Flanders Campaign and was wounded at Tourcoing in 1794. He retired from the army at the end of 1796, but returned to military service as a general...
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    but inconclusive actions before regaining the initiative at the battles of Tourcoing and Fleurus in June. The French armies drove the Austrians, British...
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  • May 18 (category Days of the year)
    Battle of Tourcoing during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. 1803 – Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens...
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    Several medical experts testified that Hadfield's injuries at the Battle of Tourcoing, where he was repeatedly struck in the head by a sabre, had caused...
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    Tourcoing by the 82,000-man left wing of the Army of the North, led by Souham in the absence of Pichegru. This was followed on 22 May by the Battle of...
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    Franz Joseph, Count Kinsky (category Imperial military personnel of the War of Bavarian Succession)
    Dominique Vandamme. On the morning of 18 May, Souham and Bonnaud opened the Battle of Tourcoing by falling on the columns of Otto and York with 40,000 men...
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  • 1794 in France (category Years of the 18th century in France)
    former ferme générale. 18 May – Battle of Tourcoing, French victory over Austrian and British forces. 22 May – Battle of Tournay, Coalition forces (Austrian...
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