Plates by Langendijk: Crossing of the Waal 1795

Two plates, a little bit unclear, about the retreat across the Waal of the British/Hanovarian army. They used the existing ship-bridge of Nijmegen so they did not need to build a pontonbridge.
During the retreat, afaik, the bridge was destroyed before all troops could cross.

And of course, the French also crossed the Waal but as is was so cold, they could use the ice on the rivers to cross. In this situation a Dutch waterline was of no use.
In former times the ice would be broken by troops but the Dutch army was so demoralised that they only thought of retreating. 

Siege of Willemstad 1793

The look of a French battery at the siege of Willemstad, netherlands, 1793.

Which is an interesting picture as it shows various methods to bombard a city.
On the right the big bombards/houwitzers with their caracteristic fused bombs. In the middle "normal" siege guns which are probably using heated cannonballs as on the left cannonballs are heated to cause fire in the city.
For me it was new, that this last method was used against cities. I thought they were only used for shore batteries against ships.

A sortie against a French battery by the Dutch garrison.

This depicts the sortie on Friday, 15th march 1793 when in total 58 men (3 officers, two sergeants, 2 corporals, 6 artillery men and 45 men) attacked a French battery killing almost all French and made 3 siege guns unusable.

The troops came from the garrison battalions (1st Saksen-Gotha, batallion Bosc de la Calmette).
As the grenadiers of both battalions used bearskin the grenadiers in the back with (probably) mitres are portrayed wrong.

Snow and ice



the french attack Bommel over the ice

 In this period of snow and ice, some winter picture of this period.

1794; the French attack accross the frozen rivers



Charles Rochussen : French cross a frozen river in the Netherlands



French plate about conquering the ice bound Dutch fleet