campaign, notable, Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Flanders Campaign
Flanders Campaign was a campaign fought in 1792 at Belgium; it lasted about 3 years. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Belgium. It was part of the French Revolutionary Wars, which ran from 1792 to 1802. The recorded result: French victory.
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Where it sits in the French Revolutionary Wars
Record
| Date | 1792 (year precision) to 1795 | |
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| Place | Belgium 50.641N, 4.668E | |
| Kind | Campaign, Revolutionary and Napoleonic | |
| Territorial change | Austrian Netherlands and Liège annexed by France; Batavian Republic created as a French satellite | |
| Strength | 1793: 174,325; 64,523; 60,000; 17,440; 6,000 | |
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Nearest engagements
- Waterloo Campaign 1815, same recorded site
- Battle of Gembloux 1940, 4.6 km S
- Battle of Wavre 1815, 9.7 km NW
- Battle of Gembloux 1578, 12 km SE
- Siege of Corroy 1542, 12 km S
In the same war
- Before: Battle of Verdun 29 August 1792
- After: Siege of Namur 19 November 1792
- All 118 engagements of French Revolutionary Wars
Elsewhere in 1792
- Battle of Valmy France
- Battle of Jemappes Belgium
- Battle of Zieleńce Ukraine
- Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars Italy
- Battle of Marquain Belgium
Flanders Campaign is one of 2,126 engagements of the 18th century in the atlas and one of 267 in present-day Belgium.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q5457361, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition, revision 1377807188, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.