Battle of Corbach

Battle of Corbach
Part of the Seven Years' War

Camp of the King 's Army at Corbach and that of the enemies at Saxenhausen .
Date10 July 1760
Location
Korbach, present-day Germany
Result French victory
Belligerents
Province of Hanover Hanover
 Great Britain
Brunswick
Hesse-Kassel
(or Hesse-Cassel)		 Kingdom of France France[1]
Commanders and leaders
Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie

Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Strength

15,000 to 20,000:[2]

  • 8,000 to 8,500 Hanoverian infantry
  • 3,500 to 3,800 British infantry
  • 2,500 to 2,700 Hessian infantry
  • 1,000 to 1,200 Brunswick infantry
  • 600 Hanoverian cavalry
  • 300 British cavalry
  • 250 Hessian cavalry
  • 13 British Guns
  • 8 Hanoverian Guns

    400 to 500 with Luckner
 7,000 to 12,000:[3] initially, rising to 20,000
1,000 to 1,200 cavalry
24 Guns[4]
Casualties and losses
800 to 1,000 dead, wounded or captured[5]
18 guns lost[6][7]		 700 to 800[8]

The Battle of Corbach, or Korbach, a Hanseatic town of Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany, was fought on 10 July 1760 during the Seven Years' War. Corbach was the first battle of the campaign of 1760 and was a victory for the French over the Hanoverians, the British and their allies.

  1. ^
    • "...the standard of France was white, sprinkled with golden fleur de lis..." (Ripley & Dana 1879, p. 250).
    • On the reverse of this plate it says: "Le pavillon royal était véritablement le drapeau national au dix-huitième siecle...Vue du chateau d'arrière d'un vaisseau de guerre de haut rang portant le pavillon royal (blanc, avec les armes de France)" (Vinkhuijzen collection 2011).
    • "The oriflamme and the Chape de St Martin were succeeded at the end of the 16th century, when Henry III., the last of the house of Valois, came to the throne, by the white standard powdered with fleurs-de-lis. This in turn gave place to the famous tricolour" (Chisholm 1911, p. 460).
  2. ^ Manners, Walter Evelyn, Some Account of the Military, Political, and Social Life of the Right Hon. John Manners Marquis of Granby, London, 1899, Macmillan and Company Ltd., p. 131, note 5: "Twenty one battalions and nineteen squadrons...". Savory gives 24 battalions, 19 squadrons and 21 guns.
  3. ^ Smollett,Tobias George and Hume, David,The History of England, from the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George II, London 1825, p. 547, "...10,000 infantry and seventeen squadrons...". William Russell, Charles Coote, The History of Modern Europe, Vol.III, London 1837, p. 383, "...ten battalions and fifteen squadrons..." or, approximately, 7,000.
  4. ^ Charles Pierre Victor Pajol, Les guerres sous Louis XV: Tome 5, Paris 2006, ISBN 0-543-94431-X, p. 56.
  5. ^ William Russell, Charles Coote, The History of Modern Europe, Vol.III, London 1837, p. 383, "...no small loss..."
  6. ^ Manners, Walter Evelyn, Some Account of the Military, Political, and Social Life of the Right Hon. John Manners Marquis of Granby, London, 1899, Macmillan and Company Ltd., p. 132.
  7. ^ The Operations of The Allied Army under the Command of His Serene Highness Prince Ferdinand Duke of Brunswic and Luneberg During the greatest Part of Six Campaigns, beginning in the Year 1757, and ending in the Year 1762. by an Officer, who served in the British Forces. London, MDCCLXIV, p. 150, " twelve pieces of cannon, four howitzers, and thirty ammunition wagons...824 men killed, wounded and missing.".
  8. ^ Savory estimates 700 to 800. The Manuscripts of His Grace, the Duke of Rutland, Vol. II, London 1889, p. 219, "The French had six Brigades of Infantry engaged, which suffered greatly." Pajol, Les guerres sous Louis XV: Tome 5, p. 57, gives 600 to 700 French killed or wounded.