Pierre Raphaël Paillot de Beauregard (14 February 1734 – 30 September 1799) led a French division at the Battle of Wattignies.

He was incarcerated for three months in the Château de Ham starting on 7 October 1781 for disrespect toward his commanding officer, a brigadier general.

Its commander was Alexandre Séraphin Joseph Magnus de Sparre who was unable to instill any discipline in this body of soldiers.

[4] In June 1793, Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine commanded the Army of the Ardennes which only numbered about 8,500 men at Sedan.

Jean Nicolas Houchard, the commander of the Army of the Moselle agreed to send Amable Henri Delaage with 10,500 men, but the force was only to hold the town for two days before withdrawing.

Adam Philippe de Custine cancelled Kilmaine's main offensive but allowed Beauregard to proceed with 2,000 soldiers.

[6] On 10 October, an exasperated Kilmaine wrote to a friend, "Try in the name of heaven to rid me of this old general Beauregard, he is a true agent of the old regime, a dirty schemer who puts the entire division in confusion.

[9] Beauregard took command of a 4,263-man Army of the Ardennes division cobbled together from units at Sedan, Montmédy and the Camp of Carignan.

[10] Aside from the above-named units and the 11th Chasseurs à Cheval, the division was composed of 22 separate detachments, most numbering only 100 or 200 soldiers.

It was opposed by Karl Joseph Hadik von Futak with two battalions and four squadrons,[12] a total of 2,100 soldiers defending Obrechies.

The three-pronged attack routed Beauregard's troops; they fled back to Solrinnes after abandoning five cannons and three caissons.

[14] According to one account, the soldiers did not stop running until they reached Solre-le-Château, putting the day's French successes at risk.