The Battle of Fribourg 1644: Enghien and Turenne at War

In August 1644, Turenne and Grand Condé battled the shrewd Bavarian Mercy in grueling fights at Freiburg, revealing wartime challenges.

Early August 1644 saw the two greatest French men of war of the mid—seventeenth century, Turenne and the future Grand Condé, attempt to dislodge the Bavarian general Franz von Mercy from the heights of Fribourg in the Black Forest. In the twilight of the Thirty Years’ War, there was probably no better opponent for these two geniuses than Mercy, who had the a...