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Name: Rhineland Front (France)

Type: Event

Start: 1635 AD

End: 1648 AD

Parent: Franco-Swedish Period

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Was the Rhineland front during the Franco-Swedish period of the Thirty Years' War.

Chronology


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  • May 1648: The French returned to Swabia and then to Bavaria. They defeated the Imperial forces at Zusmarshausen (May 17, 1648) and drove Maximilian of Bavaria out of Munich.
  • September 1636: French forces occupy La Capelle.
  • July 1636: French conquest of Landrecies.
  • August 1645: French general Mercy and the Duc d'Enghien defeated the Imperial army at the Second Battle of Nördlingen on August 3.
  • January 1638: France occupies Laufenberg.
  • November 1643: Battle of Tuttlingen: a surprise attack by Imperial forces caused the French army to retreat across the Rhine.
  • May 1645: French General Thurenne advanced up to Bad Mergentheim, where a battle with German field Marshal Franz von Mercy would take place on May, 5 1645.
  • November 1645: The French evacuate their ephemeral conquests in Germany, systematically devastating them.
  • October 1648: Battle of Dachau.
  • July 1636: On July 14, Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, who was in the service of France, occupied the Alsatian town of Saverne.
  • December 1638: France occupies Breisach.
  • July 1644: The imperials took Freiburg.
  • September 1635: Jean de Werth takes over Heidelberg and then Speyer for the Imperials.
  • August 1636: Maubeuge conquered by france.
  • August 1636: Spanish and Bavarian troops, commanded by Cardinal-Infant and Jean de Werth, occupy the French fortress of Corbie.
  • November 1636: During the Thirty Years' War, the frontier fortress of Corbie was recaptured by the French popular army led by Cardinal Richelieu in November 1636.
  • January 1637: Franche Comté conquered by france.
  • January 1637: Bohain conquered by france.
  • March 1638: France occupies Neuenburg.
  • May 1644: Franz von Mercy, a Bavarian general who fought for the Holy Roman Empire, conquers Überlingen.
  • June 1637: The Imperial general John of Werth successfully forced the French troops to evacuate the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein near Koblenz.
  • April 1638: Freiburg conquered by france.

  • Selected Sources


  • Krumenacker, Y. (2008): La Guerre de Trente Ans, Paris, Ellipses, pp. 144-145
  • Krumenacker, Y. (2008): La Guerre de Trente Ans, Paris, Ellipses, pp. 146-147
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