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Lobositz, Battle of

Years: 1756 - Now

The Battle of Lobositz or Lovosice also Lowositz on October 1, 1756, is the opening land battle of the Seven Years' War.

Frederick the Great's twenty-eight thousand Prussians are prevented by thirty-three thousand Austrians under Maximilian Ulysses Count von Browne from continuing their invasion into the rich Bohemian plain, forcing Frederick to ultimately fall back north into Saxony for the winter.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress."

― H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol 2 (1920)