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.
