Battle of Castricum
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The Battle of Castricum saw a Franco-Batavian force defeat an Anglo-Russian force near Castricum, Netherlands, within the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. The battle was fought during the War of the
The Battle of Castricum Charles Rochussen, 1863
Anno 1799, the Battle of Castricum, by Jan Antoon Neuhuys
The Battle of Alkmaar (actually Castricum) on 6 October 1799; the French infantry attacks. Illustration on the Chocolat Louit chocolate cover
Guillaume Brune
Guillaume Brune
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Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, 1st Count Brune was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Battle of Castricum
…The battle was fought during the War of the Second Coalition against Revolutionary France between French–Batavian forces under the command of generals Guillaume Brune (commander-in-chief) and Herman Willem Daendels and British–Russian forces under the command of the Duke of York (commander-in-chief) and General Ivan…
Portrait by Eugène Battaille 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.
Marshal Brune
Brune's death, illustration by Gustave Roux