✦ History

Part of French Revolutionary Wars

Battle of Fleurus (1794)

June 26, 1794 · Battle of Fleurus (1794)

Result French victory

Jourdan beat Coburg near Charleroi, and the Austrians gave up the Austrian Netherlands.

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France

Coalition

France
Habsburg monarchy
Dutch Republic
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan military commander Jean Baptiste Kléber military commander Louis Antoine de Saint-Just military commander
Prince Josias of Coburg military commander William I of the Netherlands military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
73,000c. 81,000
Casualties
7,000c. 5,000
Strength
c. 46,000
Casualties
5,000c. 5,000
Guns
111
Guns lost
1c. 1

Units

Army of Sambre-et-Meuse
Austrian army in the Netherlands (1792–1794)

Also involved 2