What the records say
- When
- 23 Jun 1758
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 51.30° N, 6.51° E
- Description
- 1758 battle
Battle of Krefeld
1758 battle of the Seven Years' War
The Battle of Krefeld was fought at Krefeld near the Rhine on 23 June 1758 between a German army under Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and a French army under Count Louis of Clermont during the Seven Years' War. As a result of this Ferdinand's victory, the British government eventually decided to reinforce him with 2,000 cavalry and 4,000 infantry from the island.
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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 “Seven Years' War – Battle of Krefeld: Anglo-Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Prinz Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel besiegt mit einem alliierten Heer zahlenmäßig überlegene französische Truppen unter Louis de Bourbon-Condé”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “la France, vaincue à Crefeld, sur le Rhin, abandonne le Hanovre”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “битва при Крефельде”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “La guerra de los Siete Años: Batalla de Krefeld - Las fuerzas del Reino Unido derrotan a las tropas francesas en Krefeld, Alemania”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page