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| Battle of Dermbach | |||||||||
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| Part of Austro-Prussian War | |||||||||
 Cäsar Rüstow in the Battle of Dermbach | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Prussia |
 Bavaria | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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August von Goeben Cäsar Rüstow Eduard von Falckenstein |
Prince Karl of Bavaria | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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13th Division |
3rd Division 4th Division | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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Unknown, around 5,000 soldiers |
15,000 soldiers | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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48 killed 274 wounded 22 missing and captured[1] |
62 killed 364 wounded 106 missing or captured[1] | ||||||||
  Location within Thuringia  Battle of Dermbach (Germany) | |||||||||
The Battle of Dermbach was the first clash between Prussian and Bavarian troops in the Austro-Prussian War near Dermbach, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in modern-day Thuringia on 4 July 1866.
On the Prussian side, the 13th Division under Lieutenant General von Goeben was deployed which faced parts of the 3rd and 4th Bavarian infantry divisions with a total strength of approx. 15,000 men. The Commander-in-Chief on the Bavarian side was Prince Karl.
- ^ a b Österreichs Kämpfe im Jahre 1866. Die Kriegsereignisse in Westdeutschland im Jahre 1866. Vom k. k. Generalstab. Bureau für Kriegsgeschichte, 5. Band: Wien 1869; S. 32 und 37 (Digitalisat, retrieved 1 October 2017)
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