Battle of Minden
Battle of Minden was a battle fought on 1 August 1759 at Minden, in what is now Germany. It was part of the Seven Years' War, which ran from 1756 to 1763. The recorded result: Allied victory. Recorded strength: 37,000 (only engaged troops) against 44,000 (only engaged troops).
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Fought 1 August 1759
Where Minden, Germany 52.328N, 8.891E
Outcome Allied victory
Belligerents Kingdom of Great Britain; Hanover; Hesse-Kassel; Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel; Schaumburg-Lippe against Kingdom of France; Electorate of Saxony
Casualties and losses 2,762 killed, wounded or missing and 7,000 killed, wounded or missing
Where it sits in the Seven Years' War Battle of Fort Beauséjour, 1755 Battle of the Monongahela, 1755 Battle of Petitcodiac, 1755 Battle of Lake George, 1755 Battle of Fort Bull, 1756 Siege of Fort St Philip, 1756 Battle of Minorca, 1756 Battle of Fort Oswego, 1756 Siege of Pirna, 1756 Battle of Lobositz, 1756 Siege of Schweidnitz, 1757 Battle of Chandannagar, 1757 Battle of Reichenberg, 1757 Battle of Prague, 1757 Battle of Kolín, 1757 Battle of Studencem, 1757 Battle of Hastenbeck, 1757 Siege of Fort William Henry, 1757 Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf, 1757 Raid on Rochefort, 1757 Battle of Moys, 1757 Battle of Cap-Français, 1757 Battle of Rossbach, 1757 Battle of Breslau, 1757 Battle of Leuthen, 1757 Siege of Olomouc, 1758 Capture of Senegal, 1758 Siege of Küstrin, 1758 Siege of Neisse, 1758 Siege of Schweidnitz, 1758 Battle of Cartagena, 1758 Siege of Minden, 1758 Battle of Cuddalore, 1758 Action of 29 April 1758, 1758 Raid on St Malo, 1758 Battle of Rheinberg, 1758 Battle of Krefeld, 1758 Battle of Domstadtl, 1758 Battle of Carillon, 1758 Battle of Ostřetína, 1758 Battle of Přepych, 1758 Battle of Negapatam, 1758 Battle of Mehr, 1758 Raid on Cherbourg, 1758 Battle of Zorndorf, 1758 Battle of Fort Frontenac, 1758 Battle of Saint Cast, 1758 Battle of Fort Duquesne, 1758 Battle of Tornow, 1758 Siege of Kolberg, 1758 Battle of Lutterberg, 1758 Battle of Fort Ligonier, 1758 Battle of Hochkirch, 1758 Siege of Madras, 1758 Capture of Gorée, 1758 Battle of Condore, 1758 Sieges of Kolberg, 1759 Planned French Invasion of Britain, 1759 Battle of Fulda, 1759 Invasion of Martinique, 1759 Invasion of Guadeloupe, 1759 Siege of Masulipatam, 1759 Battle of Bergen, 1759 Battle of Peterswalde, 1759 Battle of Himmelreich, 1759 Siege of Quebec, 1759 Raid on Le Havre, 1759 Battle of Kay, 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga, 1759 Battle of Beauport, 1759 Battle of Minden, 1759 Battle of Kunersdorf, 1759 Battle of Lagos, 1759 Battle of Pondicherry, 1759 Battle of Frisches Haff, 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham, 1759 Battle of Hoyerswerda, 1759 Siege of Münster, 1759 Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759 Battle of Maxen, 1759 Battle of Chinsurah, 1759 Battle of Meissen, 1759 Battle of Wandiwash, 1760 Battle of Udgir, 1760 Battle of Carrickfergus, 1760 Battle of Sainte-Foy, 1760 Battle of Neuville, 1760 Siege of Glatz, 1760 Battle of Landeshut, 1760 Battle of Restigouche, 1760 Battle of Corbach, 1760 Siege of Dresden, 1760 Battle of Emsdorf, 1760 Battle of Warburg, 1760 Battle of Liegnitz, 1760 Battle of Oschatz, 1760 Battle of the Thousand Islands, 1760 Siege of Kolberg, 1760 Siege of Pondicherry, 1760 Battle of Rhadern, 1760 Raid on Berlin, 1760 Battle of Kloster Kampen, 1760 Battle of the Windward Passage, 1760 Battle of Langensalza, 1761 Siege of Cassel, 1761 Battle of Grünberg, 1761 Capture of Belle Île, 1761 Invasion of Dominica, 1761 Battle of Villinghausen, 1761 Action of 17 July 1761, 1761 Battle of Cape Finisterre, 1761 Siege of Kolberg, 1761 Battle of Ölper, 1761 Invasion of Martinique, 1762 Bombardment of Arnsberg, 1762 Battle of Wilhelmsthal, 1762 Battle of Burkersdorf, 1762 Battle of Lutterberg, 1762 Siege of Almeida, 1762 Battle of Grüningen, 1762 Battle of Valencia de Alcántara, 1762 Battle of Nauheim, 1762 Battle of Signal Hill, 1762 Battle of Brücker Mill, 1762 Siege of Cassel, 1762 Battle of Vila Velha, 1762 Battle of Freiberg, 1762 Siege of Fort Detroit, 1763 Battle of Devil's Hole, 1763 1755 1763 Battle of Minden, 1759 129 placed engagements of the Seven Years' War in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.
Record
Date 1 August 1759 Place Minden, Germany52.328N, 8.891E Kind Battle, early modern Strength 37,000 (only engaged troops) 44,000 (only engaged troops) Casualties and losses 2,762 killed, wounded or missing 7,000 killed, wounded or missing Commanders
Battle of Minden Battle of Minden Siege of Minden Battle of Gohfeld Battle of Idistaviso Battle of Vlotho Battle of Oldendorf Battle of Gohfeld Battle of Idistaviso Bremen Düsseldorf Münster Groningen Göttingen Essen Kassel Oldenburg 100 km 52.328N, 8.891E The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.
Combat data (CDB90)
Attacker: PR & ALLIED ARMYDefender: FR ARMYStrength 45,000 60,000 Casualties 2,762 (6.1%) 7,086 (11.8%) Mission accomplishment, 1 to 10 9 2 Outcome attacker won Duration 1 day Front width 4 km 4 km Attacker advanced 2 km
From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 75), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.
Battle of Minden is one of 2,126 engagements of the 18th century in the atlas and one of 668 in present-day Germany.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q683044 , released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Minden , revision 1384903596, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.
