Battle of Nördlingen (1645)
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The Battle of Nördlingen took place on 3 August 1645 in the later stages of the Thirty Years' War, southeast of Nördlingen near the village of Alerheim. A combined Franco-Hessian army led by d'Enghien
The Battle of Nördlingen by Jean-Baptiste Le Paon
Franz von Mercy
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Franz Freiherr von Mercy, Lord of Mandre and Collenburg, was a German field marshal in the Thirty Years' War who fought with distinction for the Imperial side and was commander-in-chief of the Bavaria
Battle of Nördlingen (1645)
…War, southeast of Nördlingen near the village of Alerheim. A combined Franco-Hessian army led by d'Enghien and Turenne defeated a Bavarian force led by Franz von Mercy. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, with Mercy himself among the dead, but the result had very little strategic impact on the war…
Franz von Mercy
Bust of Mercy on display in the Ruhmeshalle in Munich.
Painting of the siege of Neunburg in 1641 by Pieter Snayers