Battle of Tuttlingen

Wittstock - Rheinfelden - Breitenfeld - Tuttlingen - Freiburg - Jankau - Herbsthausen - Nördlingen - Zusmarshausen

The Battle of Tuttlingen was a battle between the allied imperial and Bavarian troops and the French- Weimar army during the Thirty Years' War.

On November 24, 1643 Bavarian and imperial troops raided (supplemented inter alia by Lorraine and Spanish units) under Franz von Mercy, Melchior Count of Hatzfeld, Johann von Werth and Duke Charles IV of Lorraine, the French army in the area of ​​Tuttlingen was in winter quarters. The French had established their headquarters in the ruined castle on the Honberg and in the town, in the intervening cemetery artillery was stored with the guns. A big mistake, as it turned out afterwards. Heavy snowfall allowed an almost soundless approach a vanguard in the morning under von Werth, 1000 Riders of Johann Špork, an dragoon regiment under Colonel gold and a hundred Croatians under then- Colonel and later General George of Truck Müller, which is why the French this attack was totally unprepared and an ordered defense was not possible. During the French cavalry managed to escape, managed the rest of the French army not to settle by the enemy. The Honberg was taken without Allied losses because the opponents were missing his guns.

The following day, the remaining troops had (about 7,000 men ), including the French commander Josiah Rantzau, and seven of his generals, arise. The " been so Verzaichnuß get the stucco and weighing the enemy " on count " 2 Half Carthaunen, 2 Darzu associated Laue tablets. 1 Singerin. 2 snakes. 4 Kurtze Falconen in jhren Laue tablets. 1 Pöller with its Laue tablets. 32 ammunition wagons. 20 ball weighing. 13 Karrn. "

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After the Battle of Tuttlingen the situation for the French army in Württemberg had become untenable. Since the retreat across the Rhine still had to take place in winter, the majority went to military personnel and material by hunger, cold and desertion lost.

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