Battle of Isted

Battle of Isted
	Part of The First Schleswig War
	; The Battle of Isted by Niels Simonsen
Date	24–25 July 1850
Location	Isted, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Result	Danish victory
Belligerents
Schleswig-Holstein	Denmark
Commanders and leaders
Karl Wilhelm von Willisen	Gerhard Christoph von Krogh; Friderich Adolph Schleppegrell †
Strength
26,800	37,000
Casualties and losses
2,808 killed, wounded or captured	3,615 killed, wounded or captured

The Battle of Isted (Danish: Slaget på Isted Hede; German: Die Schlacht bei Idstedt) took place on 25 July 1850 near the village of Idstedt (Danish: Isted), in what is today Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The battle was part of the First Schleswig War.

The battle began early in the morning at around 2:00 and lasted until 19:00. The Danish took 1,072 unwounded and 411 wounded prisoners. The Danish victory failed to break the Schleswig-Holsteinian army and the war continued until 1851.

The Isted Lion commemorates the battle, which was at its time the largest in Scandinavian history. The battle's anniversary, 25 July, is a military flag day in Denmark.

N. F. S. Grundtvig's song "Det var en sommermorgen" ("It was a summer morning") touches on the battle of Isted.

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