Part of the Second Silesian War (War of the Austrian Succession)
Date
15 December 1745
Location
Kesselsdorf, near Dresden, present-day Germany
Result
Prussian victory
Belligerents
Prussia
Saxony Austria[1]
Commanders and leaders
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
Field Marshal Rutowsky
Strength
32,000[2] 33 field guns additional battalion guns
35,000:
28,000 Saxons
7,000 Austrians
80 field and battalion guns[3]
Casualties and losses
5,100:
1,600 killed
3,500 wounded and missing
10,500:
3,800 dead and wounded
6,700 captured
48 cannon
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Menin
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Breisgau
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Melle
Ghent
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Neisse
Glatz
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Kosel
Hennersdorf
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Simbach
Deggendorf
Straubing
Ingolstadt
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Austria
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Linz
Saxony
Kesselsdorf
War of Jenkins' Ear
First Silesian War
Second Silesian War
Italian campaigns
Sea battles
King George's War
Jacobite rising of 1745
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The Battle of Kesselsdorf was fought on 15 December 1745, between the Kingdom of Prussia and the combined forces of the Archduchy of Austria and the Electorate of Saxony during the part of the War of the Austrian Succession known as the Second Silesian War. The Prussians were led by Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, while the Austrians and Saxons were led by Field Marshal Rutowsky. The Prussians were victorious over the Royal Saxon Army and the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Emperor.
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"The Austrian imperial standard has, on a yellow ground, the black double-headed eagle, on the breast and wings of which are imposed shields bearing the arms of the provinces of the empire. The flag is bordered all round, the border being composed of equal-sided triangles with their apices alternately inwards and outwards, those with their apices pointing inwards being alternately yellow and white, the others alternately scarlet and black." (Chisholm 1911, p. 461)
"The imperial banner was a golden yellow cloth...bearing a black eagle...The double-headed eagle was finally established by Sigismund as regent..." (Smith 1975, pp. 114–119)
^Tuttle 1888, p.42
^Cust 1862, p.74.
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