Siege of Antwerp (1832)

Siege of Antwerp
Part of the aftermath of the Belgian Revolution
Siege of the citadel of Antwerp, December 22, 1832
Date 15 November – 23 December 1832 Location Antwerp, Belgium Result French victory
Belligerents
French Kingdom Supported by:  Belgium	United Netherlands
Commanders and leaders
Étienne Gérard François Haxo	David Chassé
Units involved
Armée du Nord
Strength
	4,500
Casualties and losses
370 dead	560 dead

French Kingdom
Supported by:

The Siege of Antwerp took place after fighting in the Belgian Revolution ended. On 15 November 1832, the French Armée du Nord under Marshal Gérard began to lay the Dutch troops there under David Chassé under siege. The siege ended 23 December 1832. The French had agreed with the Belgian rebels that they would not participate in the battle.

Following the French army's first intervention in 1831, the Dutch withdrew from Belgium but left a garrison in Antwerp Citadel, from which they bombarded the town. The Armée du Nord and its siege specialist François, Baron Haxo took 24 days to take this citadel and return it to Belgium. Leopold I of Belgium gave France several cannon of different calibres as thanks for this action and the French Chamber of Peers offered Gérard an épée d'honneur ("sword of honour"). A monument to the French dead in the siege was sculpted in 1897, but the town of Antwerp refused to take it and it is now in Tournai.

When the Dutch withdrew from Belgium after the campaign called the Ten Days' Campaign, they left a garrison in the citadel of Antwerp, which resulted in a second operation of the Armée du Nord of Marshal Gérard, who returned with his army to Belgium November 15, 1832, when he laid siege to Antwerp.

...
Wikipedia