Battle of Könnigrätz

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Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in the Austro-Prussian War. Result: Decisive Prussian victory.

General Helmuth von Moltke grouped three Prussian armies spread along more than a two-hundred mile front in an attempt to encircle the combined Austro-Saxon forces that General Ludwig von Benedek joined into a single army. The Prussians, armed with breech-loading needleguns, attacked their muzzle-loading opponents in the morning. Superior Austrian artillery repulsed the uncoordinated Prussian assault. Von Benedek, however, did not follow up this...

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