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Torgau, Battle of

Years: 1760 - 1760

In the Battle of Torgau on November 3, 1760, King Frederick the Great's Prussian army fight a larger Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Leopold Josef Graf Daun.

The Prussians win a costly victory in one of the bloodiest battles of the Seven Years' War.

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― Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980)