Battle Of Torgau - Frederick the Great, Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Count Franz Moritz von Lacy

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In the Battle of Torgau on 3 November 1760, King Frederick the Great's Prussian army fought a larger Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Leopold Josef Graf Daun. The Prussians won a costly victory in one of the bloodiest battles of the Seven Years' War.In August, Daun missed an opportunity to destroy the main Prussian army in Silesia. Outnumbered three-to-one, Frederick escaped the Austrian trap by smashing the corps of Feldzeugmeister Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon at the Battle of Liegnitz. When the Prussians lingered in Silesia, their more numerous enemies attacked. Feldzeugmeister Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy's 15,000 Austrians joined with General Tottleben's Russian force near Berlin, making a total of 35,000 allies. While 13,000 Prussians took refuge in the Spandau fortress, Lacy and Tottleben captured 3,000 Prussians in Berlin on 9 October.

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• Publisher: Alphascript Publishing
• Languages: English
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• Released: 13.03.2012
• EAN: 9786139869664
• ISBN: 9786139869664
• No. of pages: 60
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