CASUALTY RECORD // October 11, 1797
Battle of Camperdown
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 3,775 estimated
Batavian Republic
3,775
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Camperdown was the most significant engagement between British and Batavian forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. Admiral Adam Duncan's Royal Navy North Sea Fleet achieved a complete victory over Vice-Admiral Jan Willem de Winter's Batavian Navy, capturing eleven enemy ships without losing any of its own. The scale of the Batavian defeat — 3,775 casualties — effectively neutralized the Batavian fleet as a meaningful threat in the North Sea, removing a potential avenue through which French Revolutionary power could be projected against Britain by sea during this phase of the conflict.
‹ Full battle dossierSources (19)
Monograph
Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars
Monograph
Fleet Battle and Blockade
Monograph
Nelson's War
Monograph
Sea Road to Camperdown
Monograph
St Vincent & Camperdown
Monograph
The 1797 Naval Mutinies and Popular Protest in Britain: Negotiation through Collective Action
Monograph
The Command of the Ocean
Monograph