✦ History

Part of Seven Years' War

Battle of Minden

August 1, 1759 · Minden, Minden-Ravensberg, Prussia

Result Allied victory

Ferdinand of Brunswick's British and German army defeated a Franco-Saxon army under Contades in Westphalia.

On the map Contemporaries

Great Britain

France

Great Britain
Electorate of Hanover
Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
France
Electorate of Saxony
Charles Cornwallis military commander George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville military commander Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel military commander
Victor François de Broglie, 2nd Duke of Broglie military commander Louis Georges Érasme de Contades military commander