Battle of Landeshut (1760)

The Battle of Landeshut was an engagement fought on 23 June 1760 during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years' War).

Not to be confused with Battle of Landshut (1809).
Battle of Landeshut
Part of the Third Silesian War (Seven Years' War)
Date23 June 1760
Location
Landeshut, Silesia
(now Kamienna Góra, Poland)
Result Austrian victory
Belligerents
Austria Prussia
Commanders and leaders
Ernst Gideon von Laudon Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué
Strength
28,000 men 12,000 men
Casualties and losses
3,000 dead or wounded 2,000 dead or wounded
8,000 captured[1]

A Prussian army of 12,000 men under General Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué fought an Austrian army of over 28,000 men under Ernst Gideon von Laudon and suffered a defeat, with its commander taken prisoner.

References
  1. Szabo p.279

Bibliography
  • Szabo, Franz A.J. The Seven Years War in Europe, 1757-1763. Pearson, 2008.


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