Episode 2 of 3
Improvised French Counterattack
- When
- 17–18 May 1794
- Where
- Tourcoing battlefield
- Part of
- Battle of Tourcoing
Threatened with encirclement, Souham, Moreau, and Bonnaud improvised a counterattack defeating the separated Coalition columns.
Threatened with encirclement, Souham and division commanders Jean Victor Marie Moreau and Jacques Philippe Bonnaud improvised a counterattack which defeated the Coalition's widely separated and poorly coordinated columns. Souham was directing the army only temporarily, in the absence of its normal commander Jean-Charles Pichegru.
Sources
- Battle of Tourcoing Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-20
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