Slaget vid Rocoux

Slaget vid Rocoux
	Del av Österrikiska tronföljdskriget
	; Slaget vid Rocoux, 1746.
Ägde rum	11 oktober 1746
Plats	Liège, Belgien
Resultat	Fransk seger
Stridande
Österrike; Storbritannien; Hannover; Nederländska republiken	Frankrike
Befälhavare och ledare
Karl av Lothringen; John Ligonier; Prinsen av Waldeck	Moritz av Sachsen
Styrka
80-97 000	120 000
Förluster
4 000-5 000 döda; 3 000 tillfångatagna; 30 kanoner	3 500

Slaget vid Rocoux var ett slag under österrikiska tronföljdskriget, mellan Frankrike och de allierade, Österrike, Storbritannien, Hannover och Nederländerna. Fransmännen segrade. Segern innebar att Frankrike avslutade det österrikiska styret över Nederländerna.

Referenser

^ 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, entry National Flags: "The Austrian imperial standard has, on a yellow ground, the black double-headed eagle, on the breast and wings of which are imposed shields bearing the arms of the provinces of the empire . The flag is bordered all round, the border being composed of equal-sided triangles with their apices alternately inwards and outwards, those with their apices pointing inwards being alternately yellow and white, the others alternately scarlet and black ." Also, Whitney Smith, Flags through the ages and across the world, McGraw-Hill, England, 1975 ISBN 0-07-059093-1, pp.114 - 119, "The imperial banner was a golden yellow cloth...bearing a black eagle...The double-headed eagle was finally established by Sigismund as regent...".
^ Ripley, George; Anderson Dana, Charles (1874) (på engelska). The American Cyclopaedia. New York. sid. 250. ”...the standard of France was white, sprinkled with golden fleur de lis...” . *”Arkiverade kopian”. Arkiverad från originalet den 16 januari 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080116132433/http://www.anyflag.com/history/fleur23.htm. Läst 9 oktober 2007. Frankrikes ursprungliga baner var beströdd med fleurs-de-lis. *”Arkiverade kopian”. Arkiverad från originalet den 27 september 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080927053616/http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?strucID=585779&imageID=1236061&parent_id=585395&word=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&num=0&imgs=12&total=98&pos=1&snum=. Läst 23 november 2008. :på baksidan av denna platta står det: "Le pavillon royal était véritablement le drapeau national au dix-huitième siecle...Vue du chateau d'arrière d'un vaisseau de guerre de haut rang portant le pavillon royal (blanc, avec les armes de France)."
^ Skrine, Francis Henry (1906) (på engelska). Fontenoy and Great Britain's Share in the War of the Austrian Succession 1741-48. London, Edinburgh. sid. 311. ”24,000 British, Hanoverians and Hessians...49,000 Austrians. The left wing, of 24,00 Dutch troops...”
^ [a b c] McNally, R.. Marshal of France: The Life and Times of Maurice de Saxe. sid. 192
^ Gentleman's Magazine Vol. XVI 1746 sid. 542, Copy of a Letter sent from Sir John Ligonier to the Earl of Sandwich at Breda, relating to the Action on the 11th Inst. Dated from the Camp of Losser, Oct. 12
^ Smollett, Thomas (1848) (på engelska). The History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George II. "II". London. sid. 509
^ Skrine, Francis Henry (1906) (på engelska). Fontenoy and Great Britain's Share in the War of the Austrian Succession 1741-48. London, Edinburgh. sid. 313

[1] 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, entry National Flags: "The Austrian imperial standard has, on a yellow ground, the black double-headed eagle, on the breast and wings of which are imposed shields bearing the arms of the provinces of the empire . The flag is bordered all round, the border being composed of equal-sided triangles with their apices alternately inwards and outwards, those with their apices pointing inwards being alternately yellow and white, the others alternately scarlet and black ." Also, Whitney Smith, Flags through the ages and across the world, McGraw-Hill, England, 1975 ISBN 0-07-059093-1, pp.114 - 119, "The imperial banner was a golden yellow cloth...bearing a black eagle...The double-headed eagle was finally established by Sigismund as regent...".

[2] Ripley, George; Anderson Dana, Charles (1874) (på engelska). The American Cyclopaedia. New York. sid. 250. ”...the standard of France was white, sprinkled with golden fleur de lis...” . *”Arkiverade kopian”. Arkiverad från originalet den 16 januari 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080116132433/http://www.anyflag.com/history/fleur23.htm. Läst 9 oktober 2007. Frankrikes ursprungliga baner var beströdd med fleurs-de-lis. *”Arkiverade kopian”. Arkiverad från originalet den 27 september 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080927053616/http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?strucID=585779&imageID=1236061&parent_id=585395&word=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&num=0&imgs=12&total=98&pos=1&snum=. Läst 23 november 2008. :på baksidan av denna platta står det: "Le pavillon royal était véritablement le drapeau national au dix-huitième siecle...Vue du chateau d'arrière d'un vaisseau de guerre de haut rang portant le pavillon royal (blanc, avec les armes de France)."

[3] Skrine, Francis Henry (1906) (på engelska). Fontenoy and Great Britain's Share in the War of the Austrian Succession 1741-48. London, Edinburgh. sid. 311. ”24,000 British, Hanoverians and Hessians...49,000 Austrians. The left wing, of 24,00 Dutch troops...”

[McNally192-4] [a b c] McNally, R.. Marshal of France: The Life and Times of Maurice de Saxe. sid. 192

[5] Gentleman's Magazine Vol. XVI 1746 sid. 542, Copy of a Letter sent from Sir John Ligonier to the Earl of Sandwich at Breda, relating to the Action on the 11th Inst. Dated from the Camp of Losser, Oct. 12

[6] Smollett, Thomas (1848) (på engelska). The History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George II. "II". London. sid. 509

[7] Skrine, Francis Henry (1906) (på engelska). Fontenoy and Great Britain's Share in the War of the Austrian Succession 1741-48. London, Edinburgh. sid. 313

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