Siege of Nijmegen (1794)

Siege of Nijmegen
	Part of the Flanders campaign of the War of the First Coalition
	; The Attack on Nymegen by the French. Print attributed to Nicolaas Sonnenberg, 1794.
Date	27 October – 8 November 1794
Location	Nijmegen, Guelders, Dutch Republic
Result	French victory
Belligerents
French Republic	Dutch Republic; Great Britain; Hanover; Hesse-Kassel
Commanders and leaders
Jean Moreau; Herman Daendels; Jan Willem de Winter	William V of Orange; Frederick of Orange; Duke of York; Count of Wallmoden
Strength
20,000 soldiers; (19 October)	8,000 soldiers; (24 October); 50 to 60 cannon; (21 October)

The siege of Nijmegen occurred from 27 October to 8 November 1794 during the Flanders campaign of the War of the First Coalition. It was the last major military confrontation between the forces of the Revolutionary French First Republic and the reactionary First Coalition of European monarchs including William V, Prince of Orange, before the fall of the Dutch Republic in January 1795, which William had ruled as hereditary stadtholder since 1751. As commander-in-chief of the Dutch States Army, his indecision, several changes of mind and lack of coordination with his Anglo-Hanoverian, Hessian, Prussian and Austrian allies contributed to the eventual surrender of Nijmegen to the French revolutionaries.