Battle of Zusmarshausen
The Battle of Zusmarshausen was fought on 17 May 1648 between the Holy Roman Empire and Sweden and France in the modern Augsburg district of Bavaria, Germany. The Swedish-French force was victorious, and the Imperial army was only rescued from annihilation by the stubborn rearguard fighting of Raimondo Montecuccoli and his cavalary.
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 Empire only had 10,000 men
This battle was one of the last fought in the Thirty Years' War; its consequences were the weakening of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire and signalled the rise of France as the most powerful state of Europe.
