What the records say
- When
- 11 May 1745
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 50.57° N, 3.48° E
- Description
- battle in 1745
Battle of Fontenoy
1745 Battle of the Austrian Succession
The Battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1745, took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, near Tournai, in Belgium. A French army of 50,000 under Marshal Saxe defeated a Pragmatic Army of roughly the same size, led by the Duke of Cumberland.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army, including the British 42nd Regiment of Foot”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht bei Fontenoy erkämpfen die Franzosen unter Moritz von Sachsen einen verlustreichen Sieg gegen Österreicher”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire française à la bataille de Fontenoy (Flandre)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Битва при Фонтенуа — армия маршала Франции Морица Саксонского разбила австрийскую, английскую и голландскую армии”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Se da la Batalla de Fontenoy donde Francia vence una coalición del Reino Unido, Hannover y Austria”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “オーストリア継承戦争：フォントノワの戦い。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page