Ten Years' War (Franche-Comté)
| Ten Years' War | |||||||||
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| Part of the Thirty Years’ War | |||||||||
Illustration of a massacre at the Musée du Temps, Besançon by Pierre Maublanc, c. 1636-1637 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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France Weimar Army Swedish Empire |
County of Burgundy Holy Roman Empire Habsburg Spain Lorraine Bavaria | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Louis XIII Cardinal Richelieu Grand Condé Henri Turenne Henri de Bourbon-Condé Jean-Baptiste Comte de Guébriant Henri d'Orléans-Longueville Jacques Rouxel de Grancey Charles de Villeroy Louis d'Arpajon Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt Isaac de Feuquieres Rheingrave Otto Ludwig von Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen Bernard of Saxe-Weimar |
Ferdinand III Franz von Mercy Matthias Gallas Philip IV Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand Charles de Lorraine Louis de la Verne Jean Girardot de Nozeroy Gérard de Watteville † Henry de Champagne Jean-Baptiste de la Baume-Montrevel † Marc de Montaigu César de Saix d'Arnans Lacuzon Philippe-François de Bussolin † Christophe de Raincourt Antoine Duprel d'Arloz Roland de Montrichard Alexandre d'Emskerque François de Saint-Mauris Maximilian of Bavaria | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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21,000 Infantry 5,000 Cavalry 9,000 |
11,000 Infantry 1,100 cavalry 8,000 20,000 6,000 Spanish | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| High | High | ||||||||
The Ten Years' War (1634–1644) was a European Conflict fought between the Franco-Swedish Army and the Burgundian-Allied Army, and was one of the most destructive wars to involve the County of Burgundy—270,000 Burgundian civilians and tens of thousands of military personnel died. The war is also related to the Thirty Years' War, of which it formed part, Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659), and the reconqest of Lorraine by Duke Charles IV.