Battle of Le Cateau (1794)

Battle of Le Cateau (1794)
Part of the War of the First Coalition
Date29 March 1794
Location
Result Coalition victory
Belligerents
Habsburg monarchy Habsburg Austria French First Republic Republican France
Commanders and leaders
Habsburg monarchy Paul Kray French First Republic Antoine Balland
French First Republic Jacques Goguet
French First Republic Jacques Fromentin
Strength
7,000 15,000
Casualties and losses
293 1,200, 4 guns

The Battle of Le Cateau (29 March 1794) took place at the start of the 1794 Flanders Campaign during the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. It saw three Republican French divisions led by Antoine Balland, Jacques Gilles Henri Goguet and Jacques Fromentin attack a Habsburg Austrian force commanded by Paul Kray. The Austrians drove off the French and inflicted four French casualties for every Austrian casualty.