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Lobositz, Battle of
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.