The
Battle of Fontenoy was fought at
Fontenoy[?] in the
Austrian Netherlands[?] on
May 11,
1745, during the
War of Austrian Succession.
French forces under Hermann Maurice, Count de Saxe (the Maréchal of Saxe, an illegitimate son of King
Frederick Augustus I of Poland) defeated an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army under the
Duke of Cumberland. The French lost 5000 men, while the British lost 9000 men.