Battle of Aschaffenburg (1866)

Battle of Aschaffenburg
Part of Austro-Prussian War
Fight at Herstaller Tor in Aschaffenburg, based on an original drawing by W.A. Beer.
Date 14 July 1866 Location Aschaffenburg, Bavaria 49°58′47.417″N 9°9′50.724″E / 49.97983806°N 9.16409000°E / 49.97983806; 9.16409000 Result Prussian Victory
Belligerents
Prussia	Austrian Empire Hesse-Kassel  Hesse-Darmstadt
Commanders and leaders
August Karl von Goeben Ferdinand von Kummer	Erwin von Neipperg
Units involved
13th Division	4th Division, VIII Corps
Strength
16,600	7,900
Casualties and losses
27 dead; 144 wounded, 9 missing soldiers and prisoners[1]	226 dead; 484 wounded, 1,759 missing soldiers and prisoners 25 officers 481 dead and wounded, 22 officers and 1,964 men captured[2] 4 officers 14 men dead and wounded, 4 officers and 52 men captured 3 officers 12 men dead and wounded, 5 prisoners
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The Battle of Aschaffenburg, sometimes also called The Skirmishes Near Aschaffenburg, was a battle of the Austro-Prussian War on 14 July 1866 between pitting the armies of Prussia on the one hand and parts of the VIII Corps of the German Federal Army on the other side which primarily consisted of soldiers from the Austrian Empire, Hesse-Darmstadt and Hesse-Kassel.