Battle of Langensalza (1866)

Battle of Langensalza
Part of Austro-Prussian War
Prussian Artillery attacked at the Battle of Langensalza 1866
Date 27 June 1866 Location Langensalza, Province of Saxony, Prussia Result See aftermath
Belligerents
Prussia  Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	Hanover  Bavaria
Commanders and leaders
Helmuth von Moltke (Theater commander) Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein Gustav Beyer Eduard von Flies	George V Alexander von Arentschildt
Strength
9,000	19,000
Casualties and losses
170 killed (11 officers) 643 wounded (30 officers) 33 missing 907 captured (10 officers)	378 killed 1,051 wounded

The Battle of Langensalza was fought on 27 June 1866, during the Austro-Prussian War, near Bad Langensalza in what is now modern Germany, between the Kingdom of Hanover and the Kingdom of Prussia. The Hanoverians won the battle but were then surrounded by a larger and reinforced Prussian army. Unable to link up with their Bavarian allies to the south, the Hanoverians surrendered.

That marked the demise of the Hanoverian Army and the annexation of Hanover into the burgeoning Prussia, which systematically unified Germany into the modern nation state.