Battle of Lutterberg

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Part of the Seven Years' War

Date	1762-07-23
Location	Lutterberg, Germany
Result	French victory

Belligerents

Brunswick

^[1] France

Saxony

Commanders

Prince Ferdinand

Comte de Lusace

v • d • e

Seven Years' War:

European theatre

Minorca – Lobositz – Reichenberg – Prague – Kolín – Hastenbeck – Gross-Jägersdorf – Moys – Rossbach – Breslau – Leuthen – Krefeld – Domstadtl – Zorndorf – Saint Cast – Tornow – Hochkirch – Bergen – Kay – Minden – Kunersdorf – Hoyerswerda – Maxen – Meissen – Landeshut – Emsdorf – Warburg – Liegnitz – Kloster Kampen – Torgau – Villinghausen – Kolberg – Wilhelmstahl - Burkersdorf – Lutterberg – Freiberg

There were two battles of Lutterberg:

The First Battle of Lutterberg (Lutternburg, or Lauterbach) was on 10 October 1758, and resulted in the French general, the Prince de Soubise, with a force of 42,000 French and Saxons defeating an Allied force of 14,000 men under General Oberg. Soubise earned a Marshall’s baton for this victory.

In the Second Battle of Lutterberg (1762-07-23), the French Saxon contingent under General the Comte de Lusace were defeated by Prince Ferdinand.

[edit] References

^ 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition, New York 1910, Vol.X, p.460: "The oriflamme and the Chape de St Martin were succeeded at the end of the 16th century, when Henry III., the last of the house of Valois, came to the throne, by the white standard powdered with fleurs-de-lis. This in turn gave place to the famous tricolour."George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The American Cyclopaedia, New York, 1874, p. 250, "...the standard of France was white, sprinkled with golden fleur de lis...". *[1]The original Banner of France was strewn with fleurs-de-lis.