Bitva u Torgau

Bitva u Torgau byla velkou bitvou Seven Years' War která byla svedena v roce 1760 mezi králem Frederick the Great's Prussian army and Field Marshal Leopold Joseph von Daun's Austrian army in Saxony.

Po svém vítězství u Battle of Liegnitz, Frederick the Great's Prussian army lingered in Silesia, enabling a Russo-Austrian army to briefly occupy Berlin. V říjnu, Rakouská armáda Leopolda Josepha von Daunpochodovala ze Slezska na sever do Saxony, a Fridrich pochodoval na sever, aby jim čelil jako Hans Joachim von Zieten držel jih. In the following battle at Torgau, a Prussian surprise attack by von Zieten was detected by the Austrians' Croatian light infantry, and Frederick moved prematurely to support Von Zieten's command, resulting in Austrian cannon fire and musketry mauling the Prussians and costing 5,000 troops within a half-hour. Daun was forced to commit his reserves to fight off a second Prussian attack, and while a Prussian cavalry attack failed and Frederick was wounded by a spent canister round to the chest, Daun was also wounded in the foot, and the tide of battle soon turned in Prussia's favor. Zieten's columns launched a major counterattack against Franz Moritz von Lacy's corps and throw five battalions over an unguarded causeway, spearheading a Prussian counterattack which caused the Austrian lines to crumble. Prusové získali rozhodující, i když nákladné vítězství, které vyčerpalo rakouské ofenzivní síly, donutilo Rakousko snížit velikost své armády a postupně vycouvat z války.