Early Modern era · 1745

Battle of Hohenfriedberg

The Battle of Hohenfriedberg or Hohenfriedeberg (now Dobromierz, Poland), also known as the Battle of Striegau (now Strzegom, Poland) was one of Frederick the Great's most admired victories. Frederick's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austro-Saxon army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine on June 4, 1745, during the Second Silesian War – part of the War of the Austrian Succession.

Battle of Hohenfriedberg
Battle of Hohenfriedberg · Carl Röchling, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
4 Jun 1745
Where
Dobromierz
Era
Early Modern

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