• In the Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies, fought on 24 April 1794, a small Anglo-Austrian cavalry force routed a vastly more numerous French division during...
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  • Jacques Philippe Bonnaud (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
    April 1794, he reluctantly accepted command of a division that had been cut to pieces at Villers-en-Cauchies and Troisvilles, and this at a time when failed...
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  • Rudolf Ritter von Otto (category Knights Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa)
    be captured, he resolved to attack the enemy. In the ensuing Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies, Otto's troopers smashed a 7,000-man French division, inflicting...
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    Sir William Erskine, 2nd Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies)
    lieutenant-colonel. and fought at the Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies, where a handful of English and Austrian cavalry routed a much larger force of French infantry and cavalry...
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    the Siege of Landrecies in April 1794. It undertook successful charges at the Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies in April 1794 and at the Battle of Willems in...
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  • John Mansel (category 68th Regiment of Foot officers)
    was with Erskine's column at Prémont on 17 April, but at the Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies on the 24th his command missed the action through a confusion...
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    Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz (category Commanders Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa)
    465. Chandler incorrectly credits Ott instead of Otto with the victory at the Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies. Smith, pp 151-152, 152, 159 Smith, p 163 Arnold...
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  • Edward Gerald Butler (category British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    the Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies, he was one of the officers of the two companies escorting the Emperor Francis II (the other was a company of Black...
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  • Action of 23 April 1794 - British victory over France Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies 24 April - Austria and Great Britain defeat France Second Battle of Saorgio...
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  • Granby Thomas Calcraft (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies)
    Duke of York and Albany in Flanders. With it he served at the Battle of Famars, the siege of Valenciennes, and the Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies, where...
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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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  • 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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    Charles Craufurd (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    assistant adjutant-general. At the Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies he distinguished himself at the head of a charge of two squadrons, capturing three guns...
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    Robert Wilson (British Army officer, born 1777) (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree)
    15th Light Dragoons, Wilson fought in the celebrated Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies where a handful of cavalry smashed a much larger French force. He was...
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    Battle of Wissembourg from 26 December 1793 to 29 December 1793 saw an army of the First French Republic under General Lazare Hoche fight a series of...
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    chronological list of the battles involving France in modern history. These lists do not include the battles of the French civil wars (as the Wars of Religion,...
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  • René-Bernard Chapuy (category Military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    siege of Landrecies. Part of this force was driven back to Cambrai in confusion by 400 cavalry under Rudolf Ritter von Otto at Villers en Cauchies 24 April...
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  • Daniel Mécsery (category Austrian military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    1823) commanded the left wing of the Austrian army at the Battle of Raab during the Napoleonic Wars. In the early part of the French Revolutionary Wars...
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  • Wars) Siege of Landrecies (1794) – 1794 – War of the First Coalition (French Revolutionary Wars) Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies – 1794 – War of the First...
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    campaign, Merveldt fought at the Battle of Famars and again at the Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies, 15 kilometres (9 mi) south of Landrecies on 22 April, during...
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  • Villers-en-Cauchies, now however Chapuis was advancing with all his force. Chapuis left Cambrai with nearly 30,000 men in two columns consisting of the...
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    William Keir Grant (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    commemoration of the action at Villers-en-Cauchies. Keir joined the Russian and Austrian armies in Italy early in 1799, and served in the campaigns of 1799, 1800...
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    Azincourt (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d'Albret on behalf of Charles...
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    the First World War, Givenchy-en-Gohelle was on the front line between German and Allied forces during the battles of Arras and was severely damaged...
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    attempts at relief were defeated by the Coalition in the Battles of Villers-en-Cauchies and Beaumont-en-Cambresis. Sorties by the garrison also hindered the...
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    Loos-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. A former coal mining town, three miles northwest of the...
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    Pas-de-Calais (category Departments of Hauts-de-France)
    Memorial, eight kilometres from Arras, commemorates the Battle of Vimy Ridge assault during the Battle of Arras (1917) and is Canada's most important memorial...
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    Le Cateau-Cambrésis (category Communes of Nord (French department))
    wing of the front of II Corps of the British Expeditionary Force at the Battle of Le Cateau on 26 August 1914, during its withdrawal from the Battle of Mons...
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    des fêtes en espace multifonctions à Villers Plouich". www.cerdd.org (in French). Retrieved 15 May 2022. "▶️ Merci pour l'accueil: Villers-Plouich, projets...
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    Gravelines (category Communes of Nord (French department))
    of England. There were two battles fought nearby: the first was a land battle in 1558 resulting in a victory by Spanish forces of Lamoral, Count of Egmont...
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