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Battle of Münchengrätz

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Abele's brigade held long enough on the slopes of the hill for Leiningen and Piret to untangle and the Austrian brigades escaped to the east, leaving some 3,000 men in killed, wounded and prisoners. The Prussians, having only engaged with 14 battalions, only lost about 300 men, but managed to link up
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The Prussian 31st Brigade, part of the Elbe Army, started the battle and attacked Klaster making the 38th Austrian Regiment, consisting out of Venetians, to rapidly abandon their position on the hill. In the north, Prince Frederick Charles attacked the north side of Musky Hill with his Prussian
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river in Klaster, Piret's brigade deployed on Musky Hill, and Abele's brigade drew up in battalion columns on the road from Podol.
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their two armies and drive the Austrians and their Saxon allies out of their Iser line.
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bearing in on them from the west and the north, Clam-Gallas and his ally, Prince
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units in town and posted the line regiments from his own brigade across the
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The Austro-Prussian War. Austria's war with Prussia and Italy in 1866
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Preußischdeutsche Kriege von 1864 bis 1871 - Militärischer Verlauf.
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Index

Austro-Prussian War

Mnichovo Hradiště
Bohemia
Czech Republic
Kingdom of Prussia
Prussia
Austrian Empire
Austria
Prince Frederick Charles
Karl Eberhard von Bittenfeld
Eduard Clam-Gallas
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Austro-Prussian War
Hühnerwasser
Podol
Náchod
Trautenau
Burkersdorf
Skalitz
Münchengrätz
Schweinschädel
Gitschin
Königgrätz
Blumenau
Langensalza
Main River
Hünfeld

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