Battle of Sinsheim

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The Battle of Sinsheim is a victory of Turenne, over the Holy Roman Empire June 16, 1674, during the Franco-Dutch war.

The battle was fought in Sinsheim (southeast of Heidelberg), not Sinzheim (near Baden-Baden) as it is often said.

Context

In 1674, while the bulk of French forces are mobilized in the Netherlands (with Conde) and Franche-Comte (with Louis XIV), Turenne is responsible for include the Imperial. It remains in Alsace with meager numbers. Disagree with the strategy of Louis XIV, he sees in Alsace a highly strategic location he wants to avoid the danger of invasion. It will therefore attack rather than defend, to prevent the war being laid in Alsace.

Party Haguenau, he passed the Rhine near Philippsburg on a pontoon bridge, with 6000 cavalry and 1500 infantry. It carries 160 km in five days to catch up with Lorraine Aeneas Caprara (7000 riders, 2000 foot soldiers) and to prevent their junction with the army of the Circles, commissioned by Bournonville. Turenne Caprara forces to fight June 16 at Sinsheim.

the Battle

The infantry of Caprara aligned along the hedgerows and gardens at the entrance of the city.

Turenne deployed his infantry and his dragoons on foot. They forced the outposts, crossed the Elsanz, enter Sinsheim. The Imperials retreated through the city.

They go online on the board. To get there, the French must climb a narrow defile. Turenne has infantry and dragons in the hedgerows flanking the parade, as well as the castle and in the vineyard. The French cavalry can engage in the parade.

Against an enemy attack is stopped by the firing of the infantry in this vineyard. The Imperials are repelled from Tray # 1. They retire. Turenne left immediately monitor the bulk of the imperial army, stationed on the Moselle.

There are 2 000 to 3 000 deaths, according to sources. The city is completely destroyed.

extensions

This Turenne for a limited success, since the Germans still end up in effect a junction near Heidelberg2.

July 1, the Elector of Brandenburg takes up arms against France. The Perpetual Diet of Regensburg declares war.

Turenne again crosses the Rhine and ravaged the Palatinate (July 1674) depriving the Imperial subsistence, thus cutting off their route of Alsace.

Sources

• Jean Bérenger, Turenne, Fayard, 1987.
• John Childs, La guerre au XVIIe siècle, Autrement, Atlas des Guerres, 2004.