Battle of Nauheim facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Battle of Nauheim
Part of the Seven Years' War
Date 30 August 1762 Location Nauheim, Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel Result French victory
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 British 15th Eliot's Light Horse Hereditary Prince's Corps	Réserve du Bas-Rhin Stainville's vanguard
Casualties and losses
1,398 killed, wounded or captured 2 standards, 10 guns captured	500 killed and wounded

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.

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