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.
