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Hondschoote, Battle of

Years: 1793 - 1793

The Battle of Hondschoote takes place during the Flanders Campaign of the Campaign of 1793 in the French Revolutionary Wars.

It is fought during operations surrounding the Siege of Dunkirk between 6 and 8 September 1793 at Hondschoote, Nord, France, and results in a French victory under General Jean Nicolas Houchard and General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan against the command of Marshal Freytag, part of the Anglo-Hanoverian corps of the Duke of York.

“What experience and history teach is that nations and governments have never learned anything from history."

―Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures (1803)