The Battle of Herbsthausen, or the Battle of Mergentheim according to Clausewitz, was fought in Herbsthausen (near Mergentheim) on May 2, 1645. Those involved in the conflict entailed French forces led by Marshal Turenne and the armies of the Holy Roman Empire led by Franz von Mercy. Turenne failed to take precautions as he advanced his forces from the Rhine to the Tauber. As a result of his recklessness, Turenne was defeated by Mercy's surprise attack. Carl Phillip Gottlieb von Clausewitz (June 1, 1780 _ November 16, 1831) was a Prussian military thinker. ... Mergentheim is a town in Germany situated in the valley of the Tauber, 7 miles south from Lauda. ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... // Events January 10 - Archbishop Laud executed on Tower Hill, London. ... Henri de la Tour dAuvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, often referred to as Turenne (September 11, 1611 - July 27, 1675) was Marshal of France. ... The extent of the Holy Roman Empire in c. ...
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Croxton, Dexter. "The Prosperity of Arms Is Never Continual": Military Intelligence, Surprise, and Diplomacy in 1640s Germany". The Journal of Military History, Vol. 64, No. 4 (October 2000), pp. 981-1003.
Morris, William O'Connor. "Turenne". The English Historical Review Oxford, Vol. 2, No. 6. (April 1887), pp. 260-280.
Count Bucquoy, the commander of the Austrian army, defeated the forces of the Protestant Union at the Battle of Sablat, led by Count Mansfeld, on 10 June 1619.
Mannheim and Heidelberg fell in 1622, and Frankenthal in 1623.
Wallenstein defeated Mansfeld's army at the Battle of the Bridge of Dessau (1626) and General Tilly defeated the Danes at the Battle of Lutter (1626).
Following the Napoleonic Wars, the British Empire became the world's leading power, controlling one quarter of the World's population and one third of the land area.
Following a successful slave revolt in Haiti, Britain forced the Barbary pirates to halt their practice of kidnapping and enslaving Europeans, banned slavery throughout its domain, and charged its navy with ending the global slave trade.
1890: The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the American Indian Wars.
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