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Battle of Zusmarshausen
The Battle of Zusmarshausen was fought on 17 May 1648 between the Holy Roman Empire and Sweden and France (led by Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne) in the modern Augsburg district of Bavaria, Germany. The Swedish-French force was victorious, and the Imperial army barely escaped annihilation.
The French army, led by Turenne, first captured several pieces of artillery, before they met up with the Swedish army. When the armies met, they numbered about 26,000 men, while the
Spanish forces at the Battle of Nördlingen (Swabian part of Bavaria) in early September 1634, resulting in a crushing defeat and would end the Swedish phase of the war. The Swedes would appear one more time in Bavaria in May 1648 during the Battle of Zusmarshausen near Augsburg. The Peace of Westphalia would be signed 5 months later, ending the 30-Years-War. [135][136]
References.
[129] Battle of the Lech, 15 April 1632. http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_lech.html
[130] Dieter Albrecht: Maximilian I. von