Battle of Peterswalde

50°47′13″N 13°58′43″E / 50.78694°N 13.97861°E / 50.78694; 13.97861

Prussian Bohemia Incursion
Part of the Third Silesian War (Seven Years' War)
Date14 April – 20 April 1759
(6 days)[1]
Location
Peterswald, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire
Result

Prussian victory[2]

  • Austrian munition magazines and 200+ ships destroyed
  • Austrian military Summer campaign delayed
Belligerents
 Prussia Habsburg monarchy Holy Roman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Prince Henry of Prussia[2]
Johann Dietrich von Hülsen
Johann Jakob von Wunsch		 Feldmarshall Lieutenant Ernst Gideon von Laudon
General Reinhardt (POW)
Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein[2]
Units involved
Prince Henry's vanguard I./Andlau Infanterie-Regiment
I.Battalion Königsegg Infanterie
Croatian soldiers
Hungarian foot
Strength
Unknown 3,400+ men
Casualties and losses
Unknown ~3,000 captured
3 guns

The Prussian Bohemia Incursion was a military campaign led by the Prince Henry of Prussia during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years' War), to disrupt the Austrian military capacity by launching incursions against its military infrastructure in Bohemia.

  1. ^ Operations Plan dererjenigen Corps so von der Prinz Heinrichschen Armée, unter dem Gen: v. Hülsen, und Obr: Lieut. v. Wunsch, sich derer Oesterreichischen Magazins in Böhmen bemächtiget von 14. bis 20. April 1759.
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