✦ History

Part of Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland

Battle of Castricum

October 6, 1799 · Castricum

Result Franco-Batavian victory

French and Batavian troops defeated a British and Russian army in North Holland. The defeat forced the Anglo-Russian invasion force to agree to leave the Netherlands.

On the map Contemporaries

French First Republic

Kingdom of Great Britain

France
Batavian Republic
Great Britain
Russian Empire
Dominique Vandamme military commander Herman Willem Daendels military commander Jean Boudet military commander Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune military commander
Ralph Abercromby military commander John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore military commander Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany military commander Magnus Gustav von Essen military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
c. 24,000
Casualties
c. 1,400
Captured
c. 200
Strength
c. 26,400c. 21,000
Casualties
2,538–2,557c. 2,600
Captured
c. 1,000
Guns lost
11c. 11

Great Britain Strength 14,000 · Casualties 1,421–1,440

Russian Empire Strength 7,100 · Casualties 1,117