Battle of Turnhout (1789)

Battle of Turnhout
	Part of the Brabant Revolution
	; The battle depicted in Fastes militaires des Belges, ou Histoire des guerres, sièges, conquêtes, expéditions et faits d'armes, qui ont illustré la Belgique (1836)
Date	27 October 1789
Location	Turnhout, Austrian Netherlands
Result	Belgian victory Austrian withdrawal from Belgium; Creation of the United States of Belgium;
Belligerents
Habsburg Austria Austrian Netherlands;	Belgian rebels
Commanders and leaders
Count Richard D'Alton; Gottfried von Schröder	Jean-André van der Mersch
Strength
2,500	2,000
Casualties and losses
108 killed; 60 wounded; 23 missing; 3 cannons lost	87 killed or wounded

The Battle of Turnhout (27 October 1789) was a decisive military engagement between Belgian revolutionary and Austrian forces at Turnhout in the Austrian Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). It was the first engagement of the Brabant Revolution and took place shortly after the revolutionary (patriot) army of Jean-André van der Mersch crossed the border from the Dutch Republic where it had previously been in exile. Their unlikely victory in the engagement led to the rapid collapse of Austrian rule across the Southern Netherlands and the temporary withdrawal of Austrian forces in the region to Luxembourg.

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