Siege of Landau (1793)
Part ofWar of the First Coalition
Liberation of Landau by the French 24th December 1793 (byFrédéric Régamey, 1905)
Date 20 August – 23 December 1793 Location Landau,Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany Result French victory
Belligerents
Republican France	Kingdom of Prussia
Commanders and leaders
Joseph Laubadère fr:Joseph Marie Tennet de Laubadère	Prince Hohenlohe
Strength
3,800	25 battalions

Thesiege of Landau (20 August – 23 December 1793) saw a corps from theKingdom of Prussia commanded byFrederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen lay siege to a 3,800-manFrench Republican garrison led by Joseph Marie Tennet de Laubadère. Since the Prussians lacked siege cannons, they tried to starve the French defenders into surrender by blockading the city. In late December, the FrenchArmy of the Moselle underLazare Hoche andArmy of the Rhine underJean-Charles Pichegru defeated the Coalition armies opposed to them, forcing the Prussians to raise theWar of the First Coalition siege.

Almost two months after Landau was surrounded, the Coalition army won a victory in theFirst Battle of Wissembourg, driving theArmy of the Rhine deep intoAlsace. The French government placed a priority on relieving Landau, so Pichegru's army began a sustained offensive againstDagobert Sigmund von Wurmser's Coalition army in theBattle of Haguenau. The effort finally succeeded when Hoche's army outflanked Wurmser in theBattle of Froeschwiller and then the combined French armies won theSecond Battle of Wissembourg over Wurmser andCharles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in late December.^{[citation needed]}

Joseph Marie Tennet de Laubadère commanded the 3,800-strong French garrison ofLandau. The force included one battalion each of the 3rd and 55th Line Infantry Regiments, the 2nd Battalion of theSeine-et-MarneNational Guard and two squadrons each of the 22nd Cavalry and 3rdHussar Regiments. To oppose the defenders,Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen led 25 Prussian battalions supported by 40 6-pounder field cannons. Hohenlohe's force consisted of three battalions each of Infantry RegimentsThadden Nr. 3,Manstein Nr. 9,Romberg Nr. 10,Kleist Nr. 12,Wegnern Nr. 30,Hohenlohe Nr. 32,Wolframsdorf Nr. 37 andHertzberg Nr. 47, theSchladen Grenadier Battalion and five foot artillery batteries.^[1]

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