Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Wynandael (Napoleonic Wars).

Fought September 28, 1808, between the British, under General Webb, and the French under the Comte de la Motte. The French, with 40 battalions and 40 squadrons, attempted to intercept a convoy of supplies for the army besieging Lille, and were totally defeated, by a far inferior force, with a loss of 7,000 men.