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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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