Battle of Lincelles

Battle of Lincelles
Part of the Flanders campaign in the War of the First Coalition
Date17 August 1793
Location
Result Coalition victory
Belligerents
French Republic
Commanders and leaders
Jean Baptiste Jourdan
Strength
5,000 10,000

The Battle of Lincelles was an action that took place as part of a larger manoeuvre on 17 August 1793 in the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. It was fought between the forces of Revolutionary France under the command of Jean Baptiste Jourdan and Antoine Anne Lecourt de Béru [fr], versus those of Great Britain under Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany and the Dutch Republic under the Hereditary Prince of Orange. The action resulted in a coalition victory.