Battle of Lobositz

Pirna - Lobositz - Prague - Kolin - Wholesale Jägerndorf - Moys - Rossbach - Wroclaw - Marktleuthen - Domstadtl - Olomouc - Wrath village - Hochkirch - Kay - Kunersdorf - Hoyerswerda - Maxen - Koßdorf - Landeshut - Legnica - Berlin - Torgau - chub - Burkersdorf - Reichenbach - Freiberg

The Battle of Lobositz (also Lowositz ) took place between the Prussian and the Imperial Austrian Army 1st October 1756.

Battle Record

Frederick the Great conquered it in the Seven Years War, the Austrians under Field Marshal Browne, who wanted to come to the help Struppen far from Pirna enclosed Saxon army.

When Frederick II of them got knowledge, he went out to meet them. The Austrians were among 35,000 men, the Prussians 28,000. In Lobositz both armies met. The attack of the Prussian cavalry, which came unexpectedly upon the enemy was repelled, but the infantry stormed Lobositz and forced the Austrians to retreat.

This battle was marked by misunderstandings on all sides: The Prussian cavalry attack happened against the command of Frederick, then he had already lost the battle given and leave the battlefield. When the Prussians Lobositz they stormed, they thought they had beaten the Austrians, and Frederick returned. However Lobositz was occupied only by the Austrian vanguard, the main army was still intact. Browne, however, did not realize that the Prussians " had fired their powder " already, and withdrew. Each of the two opponents had thereby lost about 2,900 men.

At the Battle of Lobositz took on the Prussian side, the Swiss mercenaries Ulrich Braker part. In his autobiographical work The poor man in Tockenburg he described the fray later impressive - not without mentioning that he used the same along with other soldiers to desert.