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2 unusual facts about Battle of Hastenbeck


Battle of Hastenbeck

The French advance troops then marched to the north and established a bridgehead at Höxter.

General Chevert was ordered to flank the Hanoverian position with four brigades containing troops from Picardy, la Marine, Navarre and Eu.


Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg

In summer 1757 the French invaded Hanover and defeated George II's son William Duke of Cumberland, leading the Anglo-Hanoverian army, at the Battle of Hastenbeck and drove him and his army into remote Bremen-Verden, where in the former monastery of Zeven he had to capitulate on 18 September (Convention of Kloster-Zeven).


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