Frederick's Victory at Rossbach
November 5, 1757
A combined Franco-Imperial army twice Prussia's size blundered at Rossbach. Frederick struck their flank with cavalry at a trot and routed them in ninety minutes, losing 548 men. The French suffered 10,000 casualties and a prestige wound that took decades to heal. Prussia had found its myth. A month later Frederick won again at Leuthen, cementing his reputation as the century's supreme battlefield commander.
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Also in 1757 (5 other events on record)
- Clive Wins the Battle of Plassey · South Asia · War
- Leuthen - Frederick's Tactical Masterpiece · Europe · War
- Tokugawa Edo at One Million · East Asia · Culture
- Damiens's Attack on Louis XV · Europe · Politics
- Encyclopédie Volume VII and D'Alembert's Withdrawal · Europe · Culture
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