Battle of Alkmaar (1799)

Battle of Alkmaar
Part of Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland

Général Dominique Joseph René Vandamme
Date2 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 France
 Batavian Republic
 Great Britain
 Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
France Guillaume Marie Anne Brune
Batavian Republic Herman Willem Daendels
Kingdom of Great Britain Frederick Augustus
Russian Empire 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.

  1. ^ Jones 2014, p. 158.
  2. ^ Nester 2023, p. 94.
  3. ^ Smith, “The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book”, p. 170, where the battle is called, ‘Egmond-aan-Zee’.