Battle of Arlon (1793)

Date	9 June 1793
Location	Arlon, Austrian Netherlands (Modern-day Belgium)
Result	French victory

Belligerents

French Republic

Habsburg Austria

Commanders and leaders

Jean Houchard

Amable Delaage

Gottfried von Schröder

Strength

9,500

6,000

Casualties and losses

900

600, 5 guns

Coordinates: 49°40′56.65″N 5°48′41.13″E / 49.6824028°N 5.8114250°E / 49.6824028; 5.8114250

The Battle of Arlon (9 June 1793) saw a French Republican force under the command of Amable Henri Delaage face a Habsburg Austrian force led by Gottfried von Schröder. The French were victorious though they suffered higher casualties than the Austrians. The action was fought during the War of the First Coalition, part of the larger French Revolutionary Wars. Arlon is located in Belgium, a distance of 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Luxembourg city.

During the Siege of Mainz, the Army of the Rhine, under the orders of Alexandre François Marie de Beauharnais (who had come to replace Adam Philippe de Custine), was entrenched on the Lauter. After taking up his positions, the commander in chief had reorganised his troops and incorporated the recruits who had arrived from all sides.

At the same time the Army of the Moselle was retiring behind the Blies and Saar. This inaction displeased the National Convention and the two generals were strongly ordered by the Committee of Public Safety to reassume the offensive and march to the aid of the army blockaded in Mainz by all the efforts of the Coalition forces. The surest means of raising the siege was to carry out a two-pronged simultaneous attack on the enemy, with the Army of the Moselle attacking by Pirmasens or Kaiserslautern and the Army of the Rhine by the left bank of the river.

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