Battle of Warburg

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Battle of Warburg
Part of the Seven Years' War
Date31 July 1760
Location
Warburg, Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn, present-day Germany
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Province of Hanover Hanover
 Great Britain
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Hesse-Kassel		  France
Commanders and leaders
Prince Ferdinand Louis de Muy
Strength
62,000 (16,000 engaged) 130,000 (20,000 engaged)
Casualties and losses
1,200 dead or wounded 1,500 dead or wounded[1]
1,500 prisoners[2]
12 guns lost
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Seven Years' War:
European theatre
Bohemia and Moravia
  • Lobositz
  • Reichenberg
  • Alt-Bunzlau
  • Prague
  • Siege of Prague
  • Kolín
  • Gabel
  • Holitz
  • Domstadtl
  • Olomouc
  • Prussian Bohemia Incursion
  • Teplitz

Westphalia, Hesse and Lower Saxony

Electoral Saxony

Brandenburg

Silesia

  • Moys
  • 1st Schweidnitz
  • Breslau
  • Leuthen
  • Breslau (1759 siege)
  • Liegnitz
  • 2nd Schweidnitz
  • Cosel (1758)
  • Neisse
  • Neustadt
  • Landeshut
  • Glatz
  • Breslau (1760 siege)
  • Liegnitz
  • Cosel (1760)
  • 3rd Schweidnitz
  • Adelsbach
  • Burkersdorf
  • Reichenbach
  • 4th Schweidnitz

East Prussia

Pomerania

Iberian Peninsula

Naval Operations

The Battle of Warburg was fought on 31 July 1760 during the Seven Years' War. The battle was a victory for the Hanoverians and the British against a slightly larger French army. The victory meant the Anglo-German allies had successfully defended Westphalia from the French by preventing a crossing of the Diemel River, but were forced to abandon the allied state of Hesse-Kassel to the south. The fortress of Kassel ultimately fell, and would remain in French hands until the final months of the war, when it was finally recaptured by the Anglo-German allies in late 1762.

The British general, John Manners, Marquess of Granby, became famous in the battle for charging at the head of the British cavalry and losing his hat and wig during the charge. The French lost 1500 men, killed and wounded, around 1,500 prisoners and ten pieces of artillery.

References

  1. ^ Daniel Mackinnon, Origin and services of the Coldstream Guards, London 1883, Vol.1, p. 406. Lieutenant-General F.W.Hamilton, Origin and History of the First or Grenadier Guards, London, 1874, Vol. II. p. 175
  2. ^ Clodfelter, M. (2008). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2007 (3th ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 85.
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Bibliography

  • Chenevix-Trench, Charles, A History of Horsemanship, (Doubleday & Co, 1970)
  • Skrine, Francis, Fontenoy and Great Britain's share in the War of the Austrian Succession 1741–1748 (William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1906)
  • Williams, Basil, The Whig Supremacy (Oxford History of England Series, OUP, 1960)

External links

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