Battle of Alkmaar (1799)

Battle of Alkmaar
Part of Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland
Général Dominique Joseph René Vandamme
Date 2 October 1799 Location Alkmaar, The Netherlands 52°38′4″N 4°44′47″E / 52.63444°N 4.74639°E / 52.63444; 4.74639 Result Anglo-Russian victory[1][2]
Belligerents
France  Batavian Republic	Great Britain  Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune Herman Willem Daendels	Frederick Augustus Ivan Essen
Strength
25,000	40,000
Casualties and losses
3,000	2,200

The Battle of Alkmaar (also sometimes called the Second Battle of Bergen or the Battle of Egmond-aan-Zee^[3]) was fought on 2 October 1799 between forces of the French Republic and her ally, the Batavian Republic under the command of general Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, and an expeditionary force from Great Britain and her ally Russia, commanded by Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany in the vicinity of Alkmaar during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. The battle ended in a Anglo-Russians victory, forcing Brune to order a strategic withdrawal the next day to a line between Monnickendam in the East and Castricum in the West. There the final battle of the campaign would take place on 6 October.