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Battle of Jankau

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Jankau (Jankov) · Bohemia

Estimated casualties

6.0K – 10Kestimated dead

Imperial army largely destroyed: ~4,000 killed and ~4,500 captured; Swedish losses lighter. Combined casualties ~6,000-10,000.

SOURCEWikipedia / Wilson, Europe's Tragedy

On 6 March 1645 the Swedish army under Lennart Torstensson annihilated an Imperial-Bavarian army under Hatzfeldt at Jankau in Bohemia, one of the most decisive Swedish victories of the late Thirty Years' War, opening the way toward Vienna.

Belligerents2

Sweden
Holy Roman Empire

ON THE MAPSwedish EmpireHoly Roman Empire

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Jankau
Peter H. Wilson, Europe's Tragedy
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Jankau (1645). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-jankau · Sources & methodology