Everything about Battle Of Castricum totally explained
France Batavian Republic
|combatant2=
Kingdom of Great Britain Russian Empire
|commander1=
Guillaume Brune Herman Willem Daendels
|commander2=
Duke of York Sir
Ralph Abercromby Prince of Orange.
|strength1=75,000
|strength2=60,000
|casualties1=1,382
|casualties2=2,536 men
11 guns
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The
Battle of Castricum (
October 6,
1799) saw a Franco-Dutch force defeat an Anglo-Russian force near
Castricum, Netherlands. The battle was fought during the
War of the Second Coalition against
Revolutionary France between French and Dutch forces under the command of General
Guillaume Brune and
Herman Willem Daendels and British and Russian forces under the command of the
Duke of York, Sir
Ralph Abercromby and the
Prince of Orange.
Background
An Anglo-Russian force of 32,000 men landed in
North Holland on
August 27, 1799, captured the Dutch fleet at
Den Helder on
August 30 and the city of
Alkmaar on
October 3. Following a
series of smaller battles at Bergen on
September 19 and other towns, they faced the French and Dutch armies at Castricum on
October 6.
Action
The town of Castricum passed from British-Russian to Batavian-French hands several times until the former finally fled, losing 2536 men and 11 guns; the Batavian-French losses stood at 1382. The defeat persuaded the Duke that his position was untenable. After a chaotic retreat, in which two field hospitals were "forgotten", the parties signed the
Convention of Alkmaar on
October 10.
Aftermath
The British and Russians were allowed to withdraw, without paying reparations, and retaining captured bounty. As a sign of gratitude for enabling him honourably to emerge from the inglorious Dutch imbroglio, Brune received a number of horses from the Duke. By 19 November all the British and Russian troops had been embarked and the expedition was over. In the years following the 1799 invasion, defensive lines were constructed in Holland to protect
Amsterdam from future invasions from the north.
Commemoration
In the "Huis met de Kogel" (House with the Cannonball) in Castricum, a cannonball that got stuck in the wall during the battle can still be seen. A plaque beneath the cannonball commemorates the battle. Various locality names in Castricum also provide a reminder of the battle, like the Russenbergen dunes and the Doodelaan street. The Russisch Monument in Bergen marks the fighting there. The French victory was also commemorated on the
Arc de Triomphe in
Paris as "Alcmaer".
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