Battle of Zusmarshausen

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The Battle of Zusmarshausen was fought on May 7, 1648 between the Holy Roman Empire and Sweden and France (led by Turenne and Condé) 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 Condé first captured several pieces of artillery, before they met up with the Swedish army. When the armies met, they numbered over the thirty thousand men, while the Empire only had eighteen thousand men^{[citation needed]}.

This battle was one of the last fought in the Thirty Years' War; it consequences were the weakening of Habsburg the Holy Roman Empire and signalled the rise of France as one of the most powerful states of Europe.