Battle of Menin
{'<entity_0>': '13 September 1793', '<entity_1>': 'Battle of Menin', '<entity_2>': 'Menen', '<entity_3>': 'battle'}
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The <entity_1>, or of Wervik and <entity_2> was fought on 12 <entity_0> and <entity_0> between 30,000 men of the French Army of the North commanded by Jean Nicolas Houchard, and 13,000 Coalition troops: the veldleger (mobile army) of the Dutch States Army, commanded by the William, Hereditary Prince of Orange and his brother Prince Frederick of Orange-Nassau, and a few squadrons of Austrian cavalry under Pál Kray, seconded by Johann Peter Beaulieu. According to De Bas the Hereditary Prince was much appreciated by the Dutch authorities (especially his father, the stadtholder and Captain-General of the States Army) for his decision to extricate the Dutch troops from Wervik and <entity_2>, and retreat all the way to Ghent, thereby avoiding the destruction of the mobile army If only he had done so sooner, as he intended on 10 September, instead of accepting <entity_3> against overwhelming odds. Ironically, after the <entity_3> the city of <entity_2> was occupied by troops of the Légion franche étrangère (Batavian Legion), a brigade formed by exiled Dutch Patriots and commanded by lieutenant-colonel Daendels.
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