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Battle of the Faubourg St Antoine

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A schematic plan, generated from the statistics of the CAA Database of Battles: the armies' size and width, the hours of fighting, the plan of attack and the outcome are as recorded; the ground and the positions are not.
St.Urban groundCentreLeft wingRight wingReserveCentreLeft wingRight wingReserveGuns0250 m500 mN

France (Fr Roy Army, 12,000 men under Turenne) attacked Conde Rebels (Fr Reb Army, 6,000 men under Conde) in France. The CAA Database of Battles records 6 hours of fighting on a front of 1.5 km, a frontal attack against hasty defense and prepared defense, and that France won. Losses: France 4,000 (33%), Conde Rebels 2,000 (33%).

This plan is generated from those figures. It shows the shape of the battle the database describes: the size and width of the armies, the plan of attack and the outcome. It does not show where the units actually stood.

The armies

France

Turenne

UnitArmMen
France left wingInfantry2,880
France centreInfantry3,840
France right wingInfantry2,880
France reserveInfantry2,400
TurenneCommander—
In this plan12,000

Conde Rebels

Conde

UnitArmMen
Conde Rebels left wingInfantry1,418
Conde Rebels centreInfantry1,891
Conde Rebels right wingInfantry1,418
Conde Rebels reserveInfantry1,182
Conde Rebels artillery (6 guns)Artillery90
CondeCommander—
In this plan5,999

What the sources report

FranceConde Rebels
Strength, this plan12,0006,000
Losses, this plan4,0002,000

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 29, “St. Antoine”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting
6 hours
Winner
the attacker
Terrain
Urban
Weather
Dry, Sunny, Hot, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture
Hasty defense, Prepared defense
Front width
1.5 km (attacker), 1.5 km (defender)
ForceStrengthLossesHorseGunsPlan and outcome
Franceattacker12,0004,000——Frontal attack; Penetration
Conde Rebelsdefender6,0002,000—6Defensive plan; Withdrew

Attacker’s advantages initiative +1

CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0.

Notes

On this reconstruction

Generated automatically from the statistics in CDB90. Frontages, depths, distances, the order of events and the terrain are schematic: they follow the recorded strengths, front widths, hours of fighting, tactical plan and outcome, not maps or accounts of the battle. The sources give no hours; the timing is conjectural.

Sources

Facts gathered from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons (licence per file); the plan and its text are timeastra’s own.