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1762 battle of the Seven Years' War
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Battle of Nauheim
Part of the Seven Years' War
Bataille du Johannsberg pres de Friedberg
Date30 August 1762
LocationBad Nauheim, Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
Result French victory
Belligerents
Province of Hanover Hanover
Hesse-Kassel
 Prussia
 Great Britain
 France
Commanders and leaders
Province of Hanover Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel Kingdom of France Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé
Units involved

Luckner's Corps

  • British 15th Eliot's Light Horse
Hereditary Prince's Corps
Réserve du Bas-Rhin
Stainville's vanguard
Casualties and losses
1,398 killed, wounded or captured
2 standards, 10 guns captured
500 killed and wounded
Seven Years' War:
European theatre
Bohemia and Moravia

Westphalia, Hesse and Lower Saxony

Electoral Saxony

Brandenburg

Silesia

East Prussia

Pomerania

Iberian Peninsula

Naval Operations

The Battle of Nauheim (also known as the Battle of the Johannisberg or Johannesberg) took place during the Seven Years' War near Bad Nauheim in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel on 30 August 1762. French troops under the command of Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé defeated Hanoverian and British troops under the command of Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick.

References

  1. ^ Castex 2007, p. 401.

Sources

  • Biography of the Marquis of Granby
  • Jomini, Henri; Traité des grandes opérations militaires, 2ème édition, 4ème partie, Magimel, Paris: 1811, pp. 182–183
  • Mauvillon, I.; Geschichte Ferdinands Herzogs von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Part 2, Leipzig: 1794, pp. 245–249
  • Pajol, Charles P. V., Les Guerres sous Louis XV, vol. V, Paris, 1891, pp. 421–426
  • Castex, Jean-Claude (2007). Dictionnaire des batailles terrestres franco-anglaises de la guerre de sept ans. Presses Université Laval. ISBN 978-2-7637-8334-5.

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