Battle of Nauheim | |||||||
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Part of the Seven Years' War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Hanover Hesse-Kassel Prussia Great Britain | France | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel | Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Luckner's Corps
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Réserve du Bas-Rhin Stainville's vanguard | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
1,398 killed, wounded or captured[1] 2 standards, 10 guns captured | 500 killed and wounded[1] |
The Battle of Nauheim (also known as the Battle of the Johannisberg or Johannesberg) was a battle of the Seven Years' War fought near 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 2 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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