Battle of Zusmarshausen

Battle of Zusmarshausen
	Part of Thirty Years' War
Date	17 May 1648
Location	Zusmarshausen, near Augsburg (present-day Germany)
Result	Franco-Swedish victory
Belligerents
Sweden; France	Bavaria; Holy Roman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Vicomte de Turenne; Carl Gustaf Wrangel	Peter Melander von Holzappel †; Raimondo Montecuccoli; Jost Maximilian von Bronckhorst-Gronsfeld
Strength
22,000 7,500 infantry; 14,500 cavalry;	15,370–18,000 8,150 infantry; 7,220 cavalry;
Casualties and losses
500	1,897–2,200; 6 Guns

The Battle of Zusmarshausen was fought on 17 May 1648 between Bavarian-Imperial forces under von Holzappel and an allied Franco-Swedish army under the command of Carl Gustaf Wrangel and Turenne in the modern Augsburg district of Bavaria, Germany. The allied force emerged victorious, and the Imperial army was only rescued from annihilation by the stubborn rearguard fighting of Raimondo Montecuccoli and his cavalry.

Zusmarshausen was the last major battle of the war to be fought on German soil during the Thirty Years' War, and was also the largest battle (in terms of numbers of men involved; casualties were relatively light) to take place in the final three years of the war.

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