Battle of Minden
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The Battle of Minden was a major engagement during the Seven Years' War, fought on 1 August 1759. An Allied army, under the overall command of Prussian Field Marshal Ferdinand of Brunswick, defeated a
Coloured lithograph of the battle
A memorial from 1859 reminds of the Battle of Minden in the Minden quarter of Todtenhausen
Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Motier, Marquis de La Fayette was a colonel in the French Grenadiers.
Battle of Minden
…Marshal d'Estrées was sent on a tour of inspection. Marshal de Contades was subsequently relieved of his command and replaced by the Duc de Broglie. Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Paulette du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette and colonel aux Grenadiers de France, was killed when he was hit by a cannonball in this battle. La Fayette's son, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de…
The marquis' wife, Marie Louise Jolie de la Rivière
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789