Siege of Landrecies (1794)

Siege of Landrecies (1794)
	Part of the Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition
	; Defense of Landrecies in April 1794. Engraving by Hippolyte Bellangé, 1833.
Date	17–30 April 1794
Location	Landrecies, France
Result	Coalition victory
Belligerents
French Republic	First Coalition:; Dutch Republic ; Habsburg monarchy
Commanders and leaders
Henri Victor Roulland	Prince of Orange
Strength
7,000	20,000
Casualties and losses
2,000	500

The siege of Landrecies (17–30 April 1794) was a military operation during the Spring 1794 campaign in the Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition. It was conducted by the veldleger (mobile army) of the Dutch States Army, commanded by the Hereditary Prince of Orange, assisted by auxiliary forces from the Habsburg Austrian army, against the fortress of Landrecies, garrisoned by troops of the First French Republic under general Henri Victor Roulland. The fortress capitulated on 30 April 1794.

^ Bas, François de (1887). Prins Frederik Der Nederlanden en Zijn Tijd, vol. 1. H. A. M. Roelants. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
^ De Bas gives the strength of the Austro-Dutch corps as 19 squadrons of cavalry (of which 9 Austrian), 31 battalions of infantry and artillery (of which 6 Austrian), and 9 detached companies of auxiliaries (all Austrian); Cf. De Bas, p. 648
^ Excluding civilian casualties, which probably were substantive; De Bas writes that the garrison of 7,000 had been reduced to 5,000 at the end of the siege; Cf. De Bas, p. 258
^ De Bas writes that the Dutch had 381 casualties in the assault of 19 April, but does not give an explicit tally for the siege. One may assume that there were casualties as a consequence of French sorties and artillery fire also; Cf. De Bas, p. 257