Battle of Puiflijk
The Battle of Puiflijk occurred on 19 October 1794 in the Land van Maas en Waal region of the Netherlands during the Flanders campaign of the War of the First Coalition against Revolutionary France.

The battle took place in three different locations between French troops under the command of general Jean-Charles Pichegru and Coalition forces. The latter, the Allies, consisted of troops from Great Britain and a French Armée des émigrés force under the Prince of Rohan. They were led by the British commander-in-chief Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany.

The Allies had fortified themselves in outposts behind the Oude Wetering canal and the dykes of the Maas and Waal rivers. On 18 October 1794, the French crossed the Maas from Teeffelen (near Lithoijen) to Alphen. On 19 October, they attacked the Coalition outposts in three locations: near Appeltern (Blauwe Sluis), Altforst and the Waal dyke near Druten (Puiflijk).

At Blauwe Sluis, the forces of Rohan were pushed back after heavy fighting. In this action, 19 Emigrants were captured. They were brought before a French military court in Ravenstein 21 October 1794, where they were condemned to death and executed for 'treason'. The English forces were driven back in great disorder; in the action on the Waal dyke, the standard of the 37th English infantry regiment was captured by the Sans-culottes.
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Land van Maas en Waal
UNK
Q55
Netherlands
LOC
Q5457361
Flanders campaign
EVE
Q18817
War of the First Coalition
EVE
Q6534
Revolutionary France
EVE
Q355643
Jean-Charles Pichegru
PER
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Armée des émigrés
MEDIA
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Prince of Rohan
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Q213573
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
PER
Q105190
dykes
Concept
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Maas
LOC
Q216171
Waal
LOC
None
Teeffelen
UNK
Q2630173
Lithoijen
LOC
Q1949139
Alphen
LOC
Q2634040
Appeltern
LOC
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Altforst
LOC
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Druten
LOC
Q942490
Puiflijk
LOC
Q589056
Ravenstein
LOC
Q208412
Sans-culottes
UNK
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Battle of Puiflijk
Concept
1794-10-19T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
19 October 1794
DATE
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18 October 1794
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21 October 1794
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19
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19
NUMBER
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37
NUMBER
country
time period
point in time
location
located in the administrative territorial entity