In the Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies, fought on 24 April 1794, a small Anglo-Austrian cavalry force routed a vastly more numerous but underexperienced French division during the Flanders Campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars. Villers-en-Cauchies is 15 km (9.3 mi) south of Valenciennes.
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