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Battle of Mollwitz

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Mollwitz (Malujowice) · Silesia

Estimated casualties

6.0K – 7.5Kestimated dead

Prussian ~3,000 and Austrian ~4,000 killed or wounded. Combined ~7,000.

SOURCEWikipedia

On 10 April 1741, the first battle of Frederick II of Prussia, the Prussian infantry secured victory over the Austrians at Mollwitz in Silesia during the First Silesian War, confirming Prussia's seizure of Silesia in the War of the Austrian Succession.

Belligerents2

Prussia
Austria

ON THE MAPKingdom of Prussia (1715)

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Mollwitz
Christopher Duffy, Frederick the Great: A Military Life
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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