Siege of Namur (1746)

Siege of Namur
	Part of War of the Austrian Succession
	; Map of the Namur Fortress in 1745.
Date	12–30 September 1746
Location	Namur, Austrian Netherlands50°28′0.01″N 4°52′0.01″E / 50.4666694°N 4.8666694°E
Result	French victory
Belligerents
France	Dutch Republic
Commanders and leaders
Maurice de Saxe; Count of Clermont	Benjamin Crommelin
Strength
100,000	7,000
Casualties and losses
112 killed; 369 wounded	7,000 prisoner or killed

The siege of Namur took place between 6 and 30 September 1746, during the War of the Austrian Succession. A French army under command of Marshal Maurice de Saxe, took the city from its Dutch garrison after a three-week siege.^[3]

^ DBNL, Benjamin Crommelin
^ Cite error: The named reference Gallica was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Browning 1994, p. 284.

[1] DBNL, Benjamin Crommelin

[Gallica-2] Cite error: The named reference Gallica was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Browning-3] Browning 1994, p. 284.

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