Major conflict1643

Battle of Rocroi

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Rocroi · Ardennes · France

Estimated casualties

15K – 20Kestimated dead

Spanish ~15,000 casualties (≈8,000 killed, 7,000 captured); French ~4,000-5,000. Combined ~19,000-20,000.

SOURCEWikipedia / Clodfelter

On 19 May 1643 the young Duke of Enghien (the future Great Conde) destroyed a Spanish army under Francisco de Melo near Rocroi, shattering the reputation of the Spanish tercios and marking the rise of France as the dominant land power.

Belligerents2

France
Spain

ON THE MAPKingdom of FranceSpanish Empire (Americas)

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Rocroi
Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Rocroi (1643). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-rocroi · Sources & methodology