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
Franz von Mercy
Bust of Mercy on display in the Ruhmeshalle in Munich.
Painting of the siege of Neunburg in 1641 by Pieter Snayers
Battle of Tuttlingen
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The Battle of Tuttlingen was part of the Thirty Years' War and was fought in Tuttlingen on 24 November 1643 between a French-led army under Marshal Josias Rantzau and the forces of the Holy Roman Empi
Franz von Mercy
…with distinction for the Imperial side and was commander-in-chief of the Bavarian army from 1643 to 1645. In that role, he destroyed a French army at Tuttlingen (1643), stalemated another at Freiburg (1644), destroyed a third French army at Herbsthausen (1645) and was killed at the Second Battle of Nördlingen…
Johann de Werth's Überfall bei Tuttlingen by Karl von Blaas (oil on canvas, 1866)