Battle of Nauheim

The Battle of Nauheim (also known as the Battle of the Johannisberg or Johannesberg) was a battle of the Seven Years' War fought near Nauheim in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel on 30 August 1762. French troops under the command of Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé defeated Hanoverian and British troops under the command of Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick.

Battle of Nauheim
Part of the Seven Years' War
Date30 August 1762
Location
Nauheim, Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
Result French victory
Belligerents
Hanover
Hesse-Kassel
 Prussia
 Great Britain		  France
Commanders and leaders
Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
Nicolas Luckner
Christian Ludwig von Hardenberg
General Oheimb
General von Schele
Generalmajor von Dittfurt
General Jeanneret		 Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé
General François Gaston de Lévis
General Jacques Philippe de Choiseul-Stainville
Units involved

Luckner's Corps

  • British 15th Eliot's Light Horse
Hereditary Prince's Corps		 Réserve du Bas-Rhin
Stainville's vanguard
Casualties and losses
72 killed
366 wounded
956 men captured
2 standards, 10 guns captured		 750 killed and wounded

References
  • Biography of the Marquis of Granby
  • Jomini, Henri; Traité des grandes opérations militaires, 2ème édition, 4ème partie, Magimel, Paris: 1811, pp. 182–183
  • Mauvillon, I.; Geschichte Ferdinands Herzogs von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Part 2, Leipzig: 1794, pp. 245–249
  • Pajol, Charles P. V., Les Guerres sous Louis XV, vol. V, Paris, 1891, pp. 421–426

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