Background Following the French victory at Dresden, Vandamme pursued the retreating allies. Napoleon sent Marshals Gouvion Saint Cyr and Auguste Marmont to support Vandamme’s corps. With Vandamme in advance, Saint Cyr’s and Marmont’s corps brought up the rear. Vandamme…
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Battle of Burkersdorf, 1762
Background By July 18 1762, during the Prussian campaign in Silesia, Frederick II was on the verge of launching an attack on Daun’s position when Tchernichev informed him of the fall of Peter III. The Russian contingent…
Esterhazy Castle Forchenstein Visit
Not far outside of Vienna (just a thirty minute drive south), one so included can find the Schloss Forchtenstein. Well, south then up a big hill!. The castle was owned by the…
Battle of Pfaffenhofen , 1745
Background In October 1744, the Franco-Bavarian army had succeeded, in coordination with Prussia, to expel the Austrians from Bavaria, and to reinstate Charles VII, Prince-elector of Bavaria and Holy Roman Emperor, in his capital Munich. Here…
Battle of Abelsbach, 1762
Austrian center positions, looking toward Prussian right. Background At the opening of the Prussian campaign in Silesia at the beginning of July, the Austrian General Brentano could count only on part of his…
Bavarian Military History Museum (1866 Display)
While on travel, I had a chance to visit the Bavarian Military History Museum in Ingolstadt Germany. The bad news was that most of the museum was closed for renovation…. The good…
Battle of Soor (1745)
Background The Battle of Soor (30 September 1745) was a battle between Frederick the Great’s Prussian army and an Austro-Saxon army led by Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of…
Battle of Chotusitz (1742)
Background The Battle of Chotusitz, or Chotusice, sometimes called the Battle of Czaslau, was fought on May 17, 1742, in Bohemia between the Austrians under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine and the…
Combat at Moys (1757)
Prelude to the Battle In September 1757, an Austrian army, under Prince Charles of Lorraine, was following up Bevern’s Prussian army in its retreat towards Silesia. On Tuesday September 6, Prince Charles…
Combat of Reichenberg (1757)
Prelude to the Battle In the Spring of 1757, during the general advance of the Prussian columns on Prague, General Königsegg attempted to defeat Bevern’s column at it crossed the Neisse (present-day…