Battle of Bergen (1799)

September 19, 1799 · Bergen

Result Franco-Batavian victory

French and Batavian troops under Guillaume Brune defeated an Anglo-Russian army that had invaded North Holland. The defeat led to the failure of the invasion.

On the map Contemporaries

France

Coalition

France

Batavian Republic

Great Britain

Russian Empire

Herman Willem Daendels military commander

Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune military commander

Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany military commander Johann Hermann von Fersen military commander

Strength and losses

Strength: 22,000c. 22,000
Casualties: 3,427c. 3,000
Captured: c. 2,000
Guns lost: c. 3

Strength: c. 47,000c. 28,000
Casualties: 4,027c. 4,100
Captured: 490c. 2,000
Guns lost: c. 26