Major conflict1745
Battle of Fontenoy
Fontenoy · near Tournai · Austrian Netherlands
Estimated casualties
14K – 20Kestimated dead
French ~7,000-8,000 killed/wounded; Pragmatic Allies ~10,000-12,000 (incl. prisoners). Combined ~14,000-20,000.
SOURCEWikipedia / Clodfelter
On 11 May 1745, during the War of the Austrian Succession, the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the Pragmatic Army of British, Dutch, Hanoverian and Austrian troops under the Duke of Cumberland near Tournai, leading to the French conquest of the Austrian Netherlands.
Belligerents2
- France
- Pragmatic Allies
ON THE MAPKingdom of France
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Fontenoy
- Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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