page_title: Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
section_title: Hanover
hierarchical_section_title: Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel / Seven Years' War / Hanover
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Darstellung der Schlacht bei Minden auf einem zeitgenössischen Stich. In der Schlacht bei Minden während des Siebenjährigen Krieges besiegten am 1. August 1759 die Alliierten Königreich Großbritannien, Hannover und Preußen die Verbündeten Frankreich und das Kurfürstentum Sachsen. Der Stich zeigt wohl das Schlachtfeld bei den heutigen Mindener (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Ortsteilen Hahlen und Todtenhausen mit Blickrichtung nach Süden. Im Bildhintergrund (links) sind wohl die Kirchtürme der Stadt Minden und die Weser angedeutet. Im Bildhintergrund (Mitte Links) ist vermutlich das Weser- oder Wiehengbirge dargestellt. Im Bildhintergrund (Rechts) ist evtl. die Porta Westfalica angedeutet, der Berg wäre in diesem Falle das ostwärts gelegene Wesergebirge. English: Battle of Minden near Minden, Germany: In the Battle of Minden, a Prussian-Hanoverian-British army under Prince Ferdinand defeated a French army under the Marquis de Contades on 1 August 1759 during the Seven Years' War. Русский: Сражение при Миндене
context_page_description: Ferdinand, Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was a German-Prussian field marshal known for his participation in the Seven Years' War. From 1757 to 1762 he led an Anglo-German army in Western Germany which successfully repelled French attempts to occupy Hanover.
context_section_description: Shortly after this, he was appointed to command the Hanoverian Army of Observation which had been raised and funded by Britain to protect western Germany, but had recently failed to prevent the French Invasion of Hanover under the previous commander the Duke of Cumberland. Ferdinand accepted this appointment on the condition that he would have direct access to George II ruler of Hanover and Britain. His new commission placed him in Hanoverian service, rather than Prussian or British. Despite this Frederick continued to communicate with him as though he were under his direct command.
  He found this army dejected by a reverse and a capitulation, yet within a week of his taking up the command, he assumed the offensive, and thus began the career of victory which made his reputation as a soldier. He tried to raise Hanoverian support for the war effort by highlighting various atrocities committed by French troops during their occupation. By Spring 1758 he had driven the French out of Hanover and back across the River Rhine which gave him a reputation in Britain as a talented General, and helped boost support for British involvement in the German war. From June 1758, following the Capture of Emden, British troops arrived on the continent and directly added to Ferdinand's forces. The number of British troops was increased throughout the war.
caption: Ferdinand's best known victory the Battle of Minden (1759).
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