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 | | Friedrich responds by invading Bohemia with a well-drilled army whose men have been trained to fear the enemy less than their own officers. |
 | | His Cleve-born cavalry commander Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm Seydlitz, 36, helps him rout an inferior and far less prepared Austrian army four miles east of Prague May 6, but at a heavy cost: of his 67,000 men (66 infantry battalions, 113 cavalry battalions, and 82 guns), 14,300 are killed and wounded. |
 | | 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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