What the records say
- When
- 13 Oct 1761
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 52.29° N, 10.50° E
- Description
- 1761 battle
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Ölper (1761)
1761 battle of the Seven Years' War
The Battle of Ölper was a battle at Ölper, now a district of Brunswick, on 13 October 1761. It occurred between a Franco-Saxon force and a Brunswick-Hanoverian force, lasted long into the night and ended in a Brunswickian victory. It was part of the Seven Years' War.
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- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Im Gefecht bei Ölper siegen Truppen des Fürstentums Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel unter Friedrich August von Braunschweig über ein französisch-kursächsisches Heer…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page