Prussia

THE GREAT EMPRESS II

Austria Prussia Wars 34 Min Read

The initial Austrian manoeuvre took the Prussians by surprise. But Neipperg, rather than precipitate an attack with troops wearied from their march, chose to take up a defensive position around Mollwitz. Neipperg was not expecting an attack when late on the morning of 10 April he was informed that the Prussian columns were ‘uncoiling’ over the snowy fields. General-Leutnant Roemer,…

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Plancenoit

The Young Guard at Plancenoit French Young Guard enter Plancenoit, the Prussians are top right On the afternoon of the 18th June 1815, before one o’clock, Field Marshal Prince Blucher had joined Bulow von Dennwitz’s IVth Corps at Chapelle-Saint-Lambert, to the northeast of the battlefield. Despite the pain and exhaustion…

Prussia Warship 9 Min Read

SIXTH RATE FRIGATE ‘Churprinz von Brandenburg’ (1675)

The difficult natural conditions the budding Brandenburg was facing: shallow lagoon, silting-up river mouth, shifting coastal sand bars and the likes (this was one of the reasons, why the later Imperial Navy moved its main port to the deep-water fjord at Kiel). It is important to remember that the centre…

Battle France Prussia 17 Min Read

Prussians attack Plancenoit

The Young Guard took part in the tenacious defense of Plancenoit against the Prussian at the battle of Waterloo. Despite being outnumbered by 2-1 the Young Guards held out all day until the attack of the Middle Guard was beaten back and were thus forced to retreat. During the epic…

Austria Battle Prussia 3 Min Read

Battle of Hochkirch

Austrian forces attacking an encamped Prussian army at the Battle of Hochkirch, Saxony, Oct. 14, 1758, during the Seven Years’ War; painting by Johann Christoph Brand at the Museum of Military History, Vienna. Frederick turned his attention to the Austrians, marching into Saxony with elements of his army from Zorndorf.…

Biography Prussia 21 Min Read

Frederick the Great’s Generalship

By taking a small country and transforming it into a major player in European politics, Frederick had emulated Gustavus. However, the many improvements Gustavus implemented became standard practice in European armies; other than the development of horse artillery later in the Seven Years’ War, such was not the case with…

Biography Prussia 5 Min Read

Freiherr Johann Adolph von Thielmann

(1765-1824) Saxon, Russian, and Prussian general. As a reward for his service in the Battle of Borodino, he was made a Saxon Freiherr (baron) on 8 October 1812. In spring 1813 he was commander of the important Saxon fortress at Torgau. In the combat at Wavre (18 June 1815) against…

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The Battle of Zorndorf I

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The Battle of Tannenberg 1410 Part I

Background Two conflicts formed the bookends, so to say, of the fourteenth century in Prussia.…

Prussian Reforms 1806-15

GERHARD von SCHARNHORST (1755-1813) Chief of the Prussian General Staff. Napoleon’s defeats were important, especially…