Battle of Hondeschoote

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Hi,

I'm looking for info on the Battle of Hondeschoote or any of the other battles when the Allies (England & Russia) invaded the Batavian Republic during the Napoleonic Wars. The invasion was in 1793.

Thanks for any help.

Regards,

 

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All info i could find about the Battle of Hondeschoote is on:

http://napoleonguide.com/battle_hondeschoote.htm

Nothing special though. Just a brief overview.

I don't see the connection between this battle and an allied invasion of the Batavian Republic. Hondeschoote is in French Flanders. In fact the BR didn't even exist at 1793. It was founded in 1795 after a French invasion of the Netherlands and became a vassal of France.

In 1799 English and Russian troops invaded the north of Holland (the province). The Batavian fleet didn't take any action to avoid it, because the Dutch sailors refused to fight the orangists (Dutch royalists who had joined the English army). There were battles at Bergen, Castricum and Alkmaar and a small army of orangists tried to attack the east of the Batavian Repluplic. Eventually the English, Russians and orangists were forced to retreat. I can't find any detailed information about those battles though (there are millions of webpages out there, and i can't find a single thing; not even in Dutch ).

 

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Originally posted by Sir Andrew
Hi,

I'm looking for info on the Battle of Hondeschoote or any of the other battles when the Allies (England & Russia) invaded the Batavian Republic during the Napoleonic Wars. The invasion was in 1793.

Thanks for any help.

Regards,

Britain and Hanover were defeated at the Battle of Hondeschoote in September and failed to regain Dunkirk. The French General, Houchard, was guillotined for not following up his victory rigorously enough. I did not know the Netherlands were called the Batavian Republic.

 

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Originally posted by De Boesselaere
All info i could find about the Battle of Hondeschoote is on:

http://napoleonguide.com/battle_hondeschoote.htm

Nothing special though. Just a brief overview.

I don't see the connection between this battle and an allied invasion of the Batavian Republic. Hondeschoote is in French Flanders. In fact the BR didn't even exist at 1793. It was founded in 1795 after a French invasion of the Netherlands and became a vassal of France.

In 1799 English and Russian troops invaded the north of Holland (the province). The Batavian fleet didn't take any action to avoid it, because the Dutch sailors refused to fight the orangists (Dutch royalists who had joined the English army). There were battles at Bergen, Castricum and Alkmaar and a small army of orangists tried to attack the east of the Batavian Repluplic. Eventually the English, Russians and orangists were forced to retreat. I can't find any detailed information about those battles though (there are millions of webpages out there, and i can't find a single thing; not even in Dutch ).

See, that's why I asked for info. I'm interested in the Anglo-Russian invasion. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

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I found some more info about the Anglo-Russian invasion of 1799:

At 12-8-1799 a fleet of 176 ships departed from Yarmouth and took 15.000 soldiers aboard in different harbours. The supreme commander of this army was the Duke of York.

At 15-8 the allied army occupied the island Schiermonnikoog and prepared a landing at Den Helder on the 22th of august. The landing had to be prosponed due to changing wheather conditions. Eventually the army landed five days later at Callantsoog.

The first soldiers who landed, were 2500 veterans, commanded by lieutenant-general Pulteney. After three hours, about 7000 men were positioned on the beaches. Lieutenant-general Abercromby took over Pulteney's command and advanced to the south.

The advance continued and the city of Amsterdam was threatened by the allied army. At 19-8 a combined French/Batavian army achieved its first victory.

After Russian troops, commanded by general Hermann (nice Russian name ... might be a Prussian officer), occupied the town of Bergen in the morning, the French supreme commander Brune reconquered the town. General Hermann was captured. 3986 English/Russian soldiers were killed that day and 3710 soldiers of the French/Batavian army.

So this must be the battle of Bergen, one of the three battles i mentioned in my previous post. As i can't find any info about the other ones, i don't know if this has been the decisive battle.

It's for sure however that the Batavian Republic remained to exist because of the failure of this invasion. Until Napoleon installed his brother Louis and the republic changed into the Kindom of Holland. In 1810 the Netherlands were annexed by France.