Battle of Hohenfriedberg

Battle of Hohenfriedberg
	Part of the Second Silesian War (War of Austrian Succession)
	; Battle of Hohenfriedberg, The Prussian infantry advance, by Carl Röchling.
Date	4 June 1745
Location	Striegau, Prussian Silesia (present-day Poland)50°57′40″N 16°20′40″E / 50.96111°N 16.34444°E
Result	Prussian victory
Belligerents
Prussia	Austria; Saxony
Commanders and leaders
Frederick ll	Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine; Johann Adolf II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels
Strength
59,000; 192 guns	59,000 to 62,500; • 37,654 regular army plus 2,000–3,000 hussars and Croats; • 22,500 regulars, 2,600 uhlans; 122 guns;
Casualties and losses
4,737	8,400 dead or wounded,; 2,000 captured; • almost 5,500; • 4,900; Another estimate:; 13,176; • 10,332; • 2,844; 63 guns; • 34; • 29;

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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.