The Battle of Warburg was fought on 31 July 1760 during the

Seven Years' War The Seven Years' War, 1756 to 1763, was a Great Power conflict fought primarily in Europe, with significant subsidiary campaigns in North America and South Asia. The protagonists were Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and Kingdom of Prus ...

. The battle was a victory for the Hanoverians and the British against a slightly larger French army. The victory meant the Anglo-German allies had successfully defended Westphalia from the French by preventing a crossing of the Diemel River, but were forced to abandon the allied state of Hesse-Kassel to the south. The fortress of Kassel ultimately fell, and would remain in French hands until the final months of the war, when it was finally recaptured by the Anglo-German allies in late 1762. The British general,

John Manners, Marquess of Granby Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-General John Manners, Marquess of Granby (2 January 1721 – 18 October 1770) was a British Army officer and politician. The eldest son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, as he did not outlive ...

, became famous in the battle for charging at the head of the British cavalry and losing his hat and wig during the charge. The French lost 1500 men, killed and wounded, around 1,500 prisoners and ten pieces of artillery.

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Bibliography

* Chenevix-Trench, Charles, ''A History of Horsemanship'', (Doubleday & Co, 1970) * Skrine, Francis, ''Fontenoy and Great Britain's share in the War of the Austrian Succession 1741–1748'' (William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1906) * Williams, Basil, ''The Whig Supremacy'' (Oxford History of England Series, OUP, 1960)

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Battle of Warburg Battles of the Seven Years' War Battles involving France Battles involving Great Britain Battles involving Hesse-Kassel 1760 in the Holy Roman Empire Military history of North Rhine-Westphalia {{battle-stub