| Battle of Maxen | |||||||
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| Part of the Third Silesian War (Seven Years' War) | |||||||
) Painting by Franz Paul Findenigg, circa 1760 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
.svg.png){kind=small} Austria | .svg.png){kind=small} Prussia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Leopold Josef Graf Daun | Friedrich August von Finck (POW)  | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 32,000 | 14,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 304 dead, 630 wounded | 2,000 dead and wounded, 11,741 captured | ||||||
The Battle of Maxen (20 November 1759) was a battle at Maxen, in the Electorate of Saxony during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years' War). It resulted in surrender of a Prussian corps.
The Prussian corps of 14,000 men, commanded by Friedrich August von Finck (one of Frederick the Great's generals), was sent to threaten lines of communication between the Austrian army at Dresden and Bohemia. Field Marshal Count Daun attacked and defeated Finck's isolated corps on 20 November 1759 with his army of 40,000 men. The next day (21 November) Finck decided to surrender.
References
- Rickard, J., 5 November 2000, Battle of Maxen, 20 November 1759, http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_maxen.html
External links
Media related to Battle of Maxen at Wikimedia Commons
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