Part of the War of the Austrian Succession and the Silesian Wars
A Prussian infantry advance during the Battle of Hohenfriedberg, as depicted by Carl Röchling
Date
7 August 1744 – 25 December 1745
Location
Silesia, Bohemia, Upper Saxony
Result
Prussian victory
Belligerents
Prussia
Habsburg monarchy Saxony
Commanders and leaders
King Frederick II
Count Kurt von Schwerin
Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau
Prince Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau
Archduchess Maria Theresa
Prince Charles of Lorraine
Otto Ferdinand von Traun
Prince-Elector Frederick Augustus II
Count Frederick Augustus Rutowsky
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Silesian Wars
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Second
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War of the Austrian Succession
Flanders and the Rhine
Dettingen
Menin
Ypres
Lauterbourg
Wissembourg
Furnes
Breisgau
Fontenoy
Tournai
Melle
Ghent
Oudenarde
Ostende
Brussels
Antwerp
Mons
Namur
Rocoux
Lauffeld
Hulst
Bergen op Zoom
Rhine Campaign
Maastricht
Bohemia and Moravia
1st Prague
Olmütz
1st Eger
Chotusitz
Sahay
2nd Prague
2nd Eger
3rd Prague
Budweis
Tabor
Soor
Silesia
Groß-Glogau
Mollwitz
Brieg
Neisse
Glatz
Hohenfriedberg
Kosel
Hennersdorf
Bavaria
Simbach
Deggendorf
Straubing
Ingolstadt
Vilshofen
Pfaffenhofen
Austria
St. Pölten
Schärding
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
First Carnatic War
The Second Silesian War (German: Zweiter Schlesischer Krieg) was a war between Prussia and Austria that lasted from 1744 to 1745 and confirmed Prussia's control of the region of Silesia (now in south-western Poland). The war was fought mainly in Silesia, Bohemia, and Upper Saxony and formed one theatre of the wider War of the Austrian Succession. It was the second of three Silesian Wars fought between Frederick the Great's Prussia and Maria Theresa's Austria in the mid-18th century, all three of which ended in Prussian control of Silesia.
The conflict has been viewed as a continuation of the First Silesian War, which had concluded only two years before. After the Treaty of Berlin ended hostilities between Austria and Prussia in 1742, the Habsburg monarchy's fortunes improved greatly in the continuing War of the Austrian Succession. As Austria expanded its alliances with the 1743 Treaty of Worms, Prussia entered a renewed alliance with Austria's enemies in the League of Frankfurt and rejoined the war, hoping to prevent a resurgent Austria from taking back Silesia.
The war began with a Prussian invasion of Habsburg Bohemia in mid-1744, and ended in a Prussian victory with the Treaty of Dresden in December 1745, which confirmed Prussian control of Silesia. Continuing conflict over Silesia would draw Austria and Prussia into a Third Silesian War a decade later. The Second Silesian War repeated the defeat of the Habsburg monarchy by a lesser German power and contributed to the Austria–Prussia rivalry that shaped German politics for more than a century.
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