Battle of Corbach

Battle of Corbach
	Part of the Seven Years' War
	; Camp of the King 's Army at Corbach and that of the enemies at Saxenhausen .
Date	10 July 1760
Location	Korbach, present-day Germany
Result	French victory
Belligerents
Hanover; Great Britain; Brunswick; Hesse-Kassel; (or Hesse-Cassel)	France
Commanders and leaders
Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel	Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Strength
15,000 to 20,000: 8,000 to 8,500 Hanoverian infantry; 3,500 to 3,800 British infantry; 2,500 to 2,700 Hessian infantry; 1,000 to 1,200 Brunswick infantry; 600 Hanoverian cavalry; 300 British cavalry; 250 Hessian cavalry; 13 British Guns; 8 Hanoverian Guns; ; 400 to 500 with Luckner;	7,000 to 12,000: initially, rising to 20,000; 1,000 to 1,200 cavalry; 24 Guns
Casualties and losses
800 to 1,000 dead, wounded or captured; 18 guns lost	700 to 800

The Battle of Corbach, or Korbach, a Hanseatic town of Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany, was fought on 10 July 1760 during the Seven Years' War. Corbach was the first battle of the campaign of 1760 and was a victory for the French over the Hanoverians, the British and their allies.

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