The Battle of Jemappes (November 6, 1792) takes place near the town of Jemappes in Hainaut, Belgium, near Mons during the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars.

One of the first major offensive battles of the war, it is a victory for the armies of the infant French Republic, and saw the French Armée du Nord, which includes a large number of inexperienced volunteers, defeat a substantially smaller regular Austrian army.

General Charles François Dumouriez, in command of an army of French Revolutionary volunteers, faces the Imperial army of Field Marshal Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen and his second-in-command François de Croix, Count of Clerfayt.

The French, who outnumber their opponents by about three-to-one, launch a series of enthusiastic but uncoordinated attacks against the Austrian position on a ridge.

At length, the French seize a portion of the ridge and the Austrians are unable to drive them away.

Saxe-Teschen concedes defeat by ordering a withdrawal.

Dumouriez, intent on invading the Austrian Netherlands, advances late in the season and attacks the Austrians with greatly superior forces.

Jemappes is won by costly but effective charges against the Austrians' prepared position.

Dumouriez overruns the Austrian Netherlands within a month, but loses it at the Battle of Neerwinden in March.

The French will not reconquer the Austrian Netherlands until the summer of 1794.