| Battle of Bergen | |||||||
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| Part of the Seven Years' War | |||||||
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Bataille_de_Bergen.jpg) Battle of Bergen 1759 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Great Britain Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)Brunswick  Hanover |
 France | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel |
Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| c. 35,000 men | c. 28,000 men | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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2,500 killed or wounded 300 captured[1] | 1,800 killed or wounded[1] | ||||||
The Battle of Bergen on 13 April 1759 saw the French army under de Broglie withstand an allied British, Hanoverian, Hessian, Brunswick army under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick near Frankfurt-am-Main during the Seven Years' War.
- ^ a b Bodart 1908, p. 230.