Battle of Lincelles

Battle of Lincelles
	Part of the Flanders campaign in the War of the First Coalition
Date	17 August 1793
Location	Lincelles, Nord, France
Result	Coalition victory
Belligerents
French Republic	Great Britain; Dutch Republic;
Commanders and leaders
Jean Baptiste Jourdan	Duke of York; Prince of Orange;
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, 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.

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