Contades

French & Saxons (Contades) : (about 57,000 men in 84 bns, 85 sqns & 90 guns)

Minden 1759 Cromwell MkI 2009

French & Saxons (Contades) : (about 57,000 men in 84 bns, 85 sqns & 90 guns)

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Years 'War he served successively under d'Estrées, Soubise and Contades, being present at all the battles from Hastenbeck onwards.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

Contades omitted to add that this astonishing infantry, charging cavalry in open formation, was scourged during their entire advance by powerful batteries on their flank.

Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes 1886

During the night Contades crossed, by nineteen bridges that he had thrown across the Bastau; while at the same time

With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War 1867

He knew that both Contades and Broglio were as anxious as he was to bring about a battle, did they but see an advantageous opportunity; and he took a bold step to tempt them.

With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War 1867

Contades, with thirty thousand men, had taken up an unassailable position: his right wing on the Weser, and his left on impassable bogs and quagmires, and with his front covered by the Bastau, a deep and unfordable brook.

With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War 1867

On the 30th of July he sent the Hereditary Prince, with a force of ten thousand men, to make a circuit and fall upon Gohfeld, ten miles up the Weser; and so cut the line by which Contades brought up the food for his army from Cassel, seventy miles to the south.

With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War 1867

Harassed only by the fire of the British and Hanoverian guns, and by that of the British infantry, Contades drew off his army by the nineteen bridges into his stronghold.

With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War 1867

Contades 'infantry was not finally settled in its position.

With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War 1867