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| | 1757 | Political Events: The People's Chronology |
 | | The Austrians take revenge June 18 at the Battle of Kolin, 27 miles east of Prague, where Marshal Leopold Jozef, graf von Daun, commands a force of 40,000 (42 infantry battalions, 17 cavalry squadrons, 145 guns) against Friedrich's 32,000 (32 infantry battalions, 116 cavalry squadrons, 50 guns). |
 | | Now 51, von Daun has gained field experience in Sicily (1718), on the Rhine in the 1730s, fighting the Ottoman Turks in the late 1730s, and in the War of the Austrian Succession. |
 | | Friedrich exhorts his troops to fight harder ("Schweinhunds, would you live forever?") but loses 13,768 killed, wounded, and missing, 45 of his guns are captured, and he is forced to lift his siege of Prague and evacuate Bohemia (Austrian losses total 9,000 dead and wounded). |
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