Siege of Bergen op Zoom (1814)

Siege of Bergen op Zoom (1814)
	Part of the War of the Sixth Coalition
	; British illustration of the attack
Date	8 March 1814
Location	Bergen op Zoom, Deux-Nèthes, France (present-day Netherlands)51°29′46″N 4°17′05″E / 51.4960°N 4.2847°E
Result	French victory
Belligerents
France	United Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Jean-Jacques Ambert; Guilin Bizanet	Thomas Graham
Strength
2,700	4,000–9,000
Casualties and losses
500–600 killed, wounded, or captured	920–1,900 killed and wounded; 2,263 captured
	Location within Europe

War of the Sixth Coalition:
Campaign Low Countries 1814

50km
31miles

4

Courtrai

Bergen op Zoom

2

Antwerp

1

Hoogstraten

The color black indicates the current battle.

The siege of Bergen op Zoom (8 March 1814), took place during the War of the Sixth Coalition between a British force led by Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch and a French garrison under Guilin Laurent Bizanet and Jean-Jacques Ambert. The initial British assault force seized part of the defences, but a well-managed French counterattack compelled much of the assault force to surrender. Bergen op Zoom is a port in the Netherlands about 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of Rotterdam and 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Antwerp in Belgium.