Battle At Hohenfriedberg 1745 N.Chr Second Silesian War Wood Engraving 1862

Description: Battle of Hohenfriedberg 1745 AD. Original wood engraving from 1862 (no reprint) Sheet size approx. 26.5 x 20 cm, unprinted on the back. Condition: slightly stained, otherwise good - see scan! Questions, please send a mail - Questions, please send a mail.Please also note my other offers! Here are more motifs on German history!I offer many more color prints, wood engravings, steel engravings and lithographs - please use the SHOP search. Shipping costs only apply once for multiple items purchased! Documentation: The Battle of Hohenfriedberg, also known as the Battle of Hohenfriedeberg, took place on April 4th. June 1745 during the Second Silesian War. After the 1744 campaign in Bohemia ended unfavorably for Prussia, the Prussian King Frederick II decided to await the enemy in Silesia. On the 29th. On May 15, 1745, the king assembled his Prussian army near the town of Frankenstein: there were 65,000 men with 192 heavy artillery pieces. On the same day, the Austrians and Saxons under Prince Karl Alexander von Lorraine and Duke Johann Adolf von Sachsen-Weißenfels had crossed the border over the Landeshuter Pass with 72,000 men and 121 guns. At 3. On the afternoon of June the Austrians advanced from the mountains to the heights north-east of Hohenfriedberg ("Prince Karl has appeared on Friedbergs Höhn") and set up Prince Karl's command post on the Galgenberg (later the Siegeshöhe). Friedrich decided to attack the enemy by surprise and therefore broke on March 3. At around 9 p.m. on June 21, he left his camp near Alt-Jauernick, north-west of Schweidnitz, while the deception fires continued to burn. At 2 o'clock in the morning he gave his orders: the army was to march off on the right and the right wing cavalry to advance towards Pilgramshain; the right infantry wing was to position itself opposite the Gule, a lowland meadow south-west of Pilgramshain. The left wing cavalry was to cover the advance of the left wing infantry. The attack of the enemy began at 4 a.m., and Pilgramshain was occupied by the Saxon army; the left wing of their cavalry was marching up south of it. At 5:30 a.m. the Prussians attacked and the Saxon cavalry were defeated. The 46 squadrons of the Prussian right wing under Field Marshal Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock (then already 72 years old) advanced against the Gule, supported by 15 battalions from the left, so that the Saxons were thrown out of Pilgramshain. At 7 a.m. the left wing of the Austro-Saxon army was defeated. Meanwhile their right wing (Austrian only) was deployed between Günthersdorf and the river Striegauer Wasser. At 6:30 a.m. the Prussian left wing began its advance; Fierce cavalry battles ensued, in which Major General Hans Joachim von Zieten tipped the scales with his intervention on the Prussian side. At 8:30 the Prussian left left Wings against Günthersdorf and Thomaswaldau to attack. The Prussians suffered heavy losses, the Austrians held out until their Thüngen regiment began to totter around 9 a.m. As a result, the Bayreuth Dragoon Regiment (1,500 men) under General Friedrich Leopold von Gessler and Lieutenant Colonel Otto Magnus von Schwerin broke through a gap in the ranks of their own infantry against the 20 Austrian battalions. The enemy was completely taken by surprise and put to flight by this blow. The Bayreuthers took 2,500 prisoners and captured 67 flags with only 94 casualties. Thus the battle was decided in Prussia's favour. Prussian losses were 183 dead or wounded officers and 4,554 men. 76 flags, 7 standards and 72 cannons were captured. The Austrians killed 1,821 soldiers, wounded 2,856 and captured 5,655. The Saxons lost 2,029 men (killed, missing and captured) and had 915 wounded. In the afternoon, Frederick the Great inspected the captured flags and captured officers at the Galgenberg, the command post of the escaped Austrian commander, Charles of Lorraine. Friedrich is said to have composed the well-known march Der Hohenfriedberger on the battlefield or in the “Favorite” pavilion of the neighboring Rohnstock Castle, where he stayed overnight. The text is said to have come from a simple soldier. However, this legend is contradicted by the fact that the march calls the regiment "Ansbach-Bayreuther" - this name was only introduced more than 20 years after the battle.Source: WikipediaIf combined shipping via eBay doesn't work, I will of course refund the overpaid shipping costs! The Battle of Hohenfriedberg, also known as the Battle of Hohenfriedeberg, took place on April 4th. June 1745 during the Second Silesian War. After the 1744 campaign in Bohemia ended unfavorably for Prussia, the Prussian King Frederick II decided to await the enemy in Silesia. On the 29th. On May 15, 1745, the king assembled his Prussian army near the town of Frankenstein: there were 65,000 men with 192 heavy artillery pieces. On the same day, the Austrians and Saxons under Prince Karl Alexander von Lorraine and Duke Johann Adolf von Sachsen-Weißenfels had crossed the border over the Landeshuter Pass with 72,000 men and 121 guns. At 3. On the afternoon of June the Austrians advanced from the mountains to the heights north-east of Hohenfriedberg ("Prince Karl has appeared on Friedbergs Höh

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