Battle of Tourcoing

May 18, 1794 · Tourcoing

Result French victory

French troops under Joseph Souham and Jean Moreau defeated a coalition army in Flanders. The Allied plan to trap the French army failed, and the coalition soon lost the Austrian Netherlands.

On the map Contemporaries

France

Habsburg Monarchy

France

Habsburg monarchy

Great Britain

Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel

Electorate of Hanover

Jean Victor Marie Moreau military commander Jacques Philippe Bonnaud military commander

Joseph Souham military commander

Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor military commander

Prince Josias of Coburg military commander

Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany military commander

Strength and losses

Strength: 70,000–82,000c. 70,000
Casualties: 3,000c. 3,000
Guns lost: 7c. 7

Strength: 74,000c. 74,000
Casualties: 4,000c. 5,500
Captured: 1,500c. 1,500
Guns lost: 60c. 60

Units

Army of the North (1792–1795)