Battle of Werben

Battle of Werben
Part of the Thirty Years' War
Illustration of the Battle of Werben (detail)
Date 7 August 1631 (N.S.) Location Werben (Elbe), Margraviate of Brandenburg (present-day Saxony-Anhalt) Result Swedish victory [1] [2]
Belligerents
Sweden	Holy Roman Empire Catholic League
Commanders and leaders
Gustavus Adolphus Wolf von Baudissin	Count of Tilly
Strength
15,100 [3]	16,200 [3]
Casualties and losses
200 [3]	>1,000 [3] 6,000 incl. the retreat to Magdeburg [4]

The Battle of Werben took place during the Thirty Years' War on 7 August 1631 (N.S.), ^[5] between the Swedish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. The Swedes had 15,100 soldiers and were led by Gustavus Adolphus, while the Imperialists had 16,200 soldiers and were led by Field-Marshal Count Tilly. Tilly's troops attacked Gustavus' entrenchments in front of Werben (Elbe), but Swedish batteries and the cavalry under Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin forced them to retreat, at the cost of 6,000 Imperials and 200 Swedes.

References

1. "History Curriculum Homeschool | Heritage History". www.heritage-history.com. Archived from the original on 1 September 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
2. "Tillys och Gustaf Adolfs andra möte". Zenker.se. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
3. Clodfelter 2017, p. 37.
4. "Tillys och Gustaf Adolfs andra möte".
5. Henrik O. Lunde: A Warrior Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721, 2014, p.109.

Bibliography

• George Bruce. Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles. (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981) ( ISBN   0-442-22336-6).
• Clodfelter, M. (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492–2015 (4th ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN   978-0786474707.
• Wilson, Peter H. (2009). Europe's Tragedy: A History of the Thirty Years War. Allen Lane. ISBN   978-0-7139-9592-3.

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