Battle of Dettingen

The battles of Dettingen was held the June 27th (June 16th of the Calendrier Julien) 1743 with Dettingen in Bavaria during the War of succession of Austria. The Britannico - Hanovriens, joined by the Austrians, demolishes there a French Army ordered by the marshal of Noailles.

Countryside preceding the battle

The Bavarois (allies of France) had undergone a severe defeat close to Braunau the May 9th 1743 and a allied army (Britanniques, Hanovriens and Autrichiens) known as pragmatic ordered by the king George II, which had been formed on the bottom of the Rhine after the withdrawal of Maillebois, of approximately 50 000 men advanced towards the south in the country of the Hand and the Neckar.

A French Army of approximately 70 000 soldiers under the orders of the marshal of Noailles, had been gathered on the middle price the Rhine to counter this new force. But the duke of Broglie was in full retirement, and the fortified towns of Bavaria capitulated the ones after the others in front of prince Charles. The French and the Bavarian ones were almost expelled of the area of the Rhine when the battle took place.

Ground

Georges II, completely dominated in the operation by his adversaries veterans, had been in great danger between Aschaffenbourg and Hanau in the procession formed by the Spessart hills and the Main river, not having had a supply in particular out of bread for one week.

Course of the battle

Noailles blocked the exit of the procession and had the stations around. Part of the troops, ordered by the duke of Grammont, crossed the Hand in front of the village of Dettingen. The orders were to remain on a defensive position but it attacked. Pushed back, its men sought to fold up themselves on the bridges but some of those crumbled and the soldiers were drowned.

The company of the Chevau-légers of the guard royal Frenchwoman is destroyed there.

Consequences - Continuations historical

It was the last time that a sovereign regent of the United Kingdom carried out his troops in the battle whose memory is still celebrated particularly with the military royal Académie of Sandhurst.

In remembering the victory Haendel her Dettingen Te Deum composed.

External bonds

The Battle off Dettingen 1743 (in English)

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