Leuthen - Frederick's Tactical Masterpiece
December 5, 1757
A month after Rossbach, Frederick faced a larger Austrian army in Silesian snow. Using a screen of hussars, he marched his line diagonally across the Austrian front - the famous 'oblique order' - and crushed their flank. Napoleon would later call Leuthen the greatest battle of maneuver of the age.
In context
Also in 1757 (5 other events on record)
- Clive Wins the Battle of Plassey · South Asia · War
- Frederick's Victory at Rossbach · 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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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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