Battle of Bergen (1799)
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The Battle of Bergen was fought on 19 September 1799 and resulted in a Franco-Dutch victory under Generals Guillaume Brune and Herman Willem Daendels against the Russians and British under the Duke of York who had landed in North Holland. The battlefield is marked by the Russisch Monument (1902).
Capture of the Russian General Hermann by the French, Helder Expedition, 1799. by Dirk Langendijk
Sir Ralph Abercromby
Image: Slag bij Bergen, 1799 Bataille bij Bergen den 19 September 1799 (titel op object), RP P 1891 A 16626 (cropped)
Guillaume Brune
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Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune, 1st Count Brune was a French military commander, Marshal of the Empire, and political figure who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Portrait by Eugène Bataille after an original by Marie-Guillemine Benoist. The original, commissioned by Napoleon and executed in 1805, was lost in the fire that destroyed the Tuileries Palace in 1871.
Brune as commander of the Armée de Batavie in the Batavian Republic, by Charles Howard Hodges (c. 1799)
Marshal Brune
Brune's death, illustration by Gustave Roux