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Battle of Fontenoy (1745)

The Battle of Fontenoy was fought at Fontenoy[?] in the Austrian Netherlands[?] on May 11, 1745, during the War of Austrian Succession. French forces under Hermann Maurice, Count de Saxe (the Maréchal of Saxe, an illegitimate son of King Frederick Augustus I of Poland) defeated an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army under the Duke of Cumberland. The French lost 5000 men, while the British lost 9000 men.



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