The year 1759 sees several Prussian defeats.…

1759 CE

The year 1759 sees several Prussian defeats.

At the Battle of Kay, or Paltzig, the Russian Count Saltykov with forty-seven thousand Russians defeats twenty-six thousand Prussians commanded by General Carl Heinrich von Wedel.

Though the Hanoverians defeat an army of sixty thousand French at Minden, Austrian general Daun forces the surrender of an entire Prussian corps of thirteen thousand in the Battle of Maxen.

Frederick himself loses half his army in the Battle of Kunersdorf (now Kunowice, Poland), the worst defeat in his military career and one that drives him to the brink of abdication and thoughts of suicide.

The disaster results partly from his misjudgment of the Russians, who had already demonstrated their strength at Zorndorf and at Gross-Jägersdorf (now Motornoye, Russia), and partly from good cooperation between the Russian and Austrian forces.

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Carl Heinrich von Wedel View → Count Leopold Joseph von Daun View → Ernst Gideon Laudon View → Frederick the Great View → Maria Theresa View → Pyotr Saltykov View →

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Austria, Archduchy of View → Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchy of View → Saxony, Electorate of View → Hesse-Kassel, Landgraviate of View → France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View → Schaumburg-Lippe View → Brunswick-Lüneburg, Electorate of (Electorate of Hanover) View → Prussia, Kingdom of View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View →

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Seven Years' War View → Minden, Battle of View → Kay, Battle of View → Maxen, Battle of View → Kunersdorf, Battle of View →

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Conflict View → Mayhem View → Government View →

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