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Battle of Turckheim

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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.
Rolling, Mixed groundCentreCentreLeft wingRight wingLeft wingRight wingReserveReserve01 km2 kmN

France (Fr Army, 33,000 men under Turenne) attacked Holy Roman Empire (Imp Allied Army, 30,000 men under Bournonville) in Germany. The CAA Database of Battles records 12 hours of fighting on a front of 4.1 km, a single envelopment, right flank against hasty defense, and that France won. Losses: France 1,100 (3%), Holy Roman Empire 3,400 (11%).

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 wingInfantry7,920
France centreInfantry10,560
France right wingInfantry7,920
France reserveInfantry6,600
TurenneCommander—
In this plan33,000

Holy Roman Empire

Bournonville

UnitArmMen
Holy Roman Empire left wingInfantry7,200
Holy Roman Empire centreInfantry9,600
Holy Roman Empire right wingInfantry7,200
Holy Roman Empire reserveInfantry6,000
BournonvilleCommander—
In this plan30,000

What the sources report

FranceHoly Roman Empire
Strength, this plan33,00030,000
Losses, this plan1,1003,400

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 37, “Turckheim”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting
12 hours
Winner
the attacker
Terrain
Rolling, Mixed
Weather
Dry, Sunny, Temperate, Winter, Temperate
Defender’s posture
Hasty defense
ForceStrengthLossesHorseGunsPlan and outcome
Franceattacker33,0001,100——Single envelopment; Right flank; Penetration
Holy Roman Empiredefender30,0003,400——Defensive plan; Withdrew

Attacker’s advantages leadership +1 · intelligence +1 · initiative +1 · surprise +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.