commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Franz von Mercy

German general, 1597 to 1645

Franz von Mercy is recorded as a commander at 5 placed engagements in the atlas between 1641 and 1645: 5 battles across 2 present-day countries, most in Germany (4), Sweden (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 850 km apart end to end, 212 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Thirty Years' War (5).

5 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Thirty Years' War 5

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
1641	Battle of Wolfenbüttel	Sweden		Franco-Swedish victory
24 November 1643	Battle of Tuttlingen	Tuttlingen, Germany	481 km S	Imperial-Bavarian-Spanish victory
3 August 1644	Battle of Freiburg	Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany	72 km W	Inconclusive
2 May 1645	Battle of Herbsthausen	Bad Mergentheim, Germany	213 km NE	Bavarian victory
3 August 1645	Battle of Nördlingen	Nördlingen, Germany	84 km SE	French–Hessian victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, collezione Luca Cristini, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.