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    The Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf (30 August 1757) was a victory for the Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin over a smaller Prussian...
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    at the small village of Gross-Jägersdorf. In the ensuing battle, the Prussian force, outnumbered 2 to 1, encircled both flanks of the Russian column (which...
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  • following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding...
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    fiercely contested Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf on 30 August 1757. However, the Russians were unable to take Königsberg, the capital of East Prussia, after...
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    Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin (category Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland))
    Gross-Jägersdorf on 30 August 1757, albeit with heavy losses. The Russian court, upon receiving news of the victory, expected Apraksin to overrun all of Prussia...
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    William Fermor (category Russian military personnel of the War of the Polish Succession)
    force that captured Memel in East Prussia and was present at the Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf. In 1758 he was appointed to command the Russian forces which...
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    and defeated a smaller Prussian force led by Lehwaldt in the Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf on 30 August. However, the victorious Russians were unable to...
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    Pyotr Rumyantsev (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the First Degree)
    of the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), those of Gross-Jägersdorf (1757) and Kunersdorf (1759). In 1761 he besieged and took the Pomeranian fortress of Kolberg...
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    Alexander von Kotzebue (category Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts)
    The Battle of Narva The Storming of Nöteborg The Capture of Narva The Battle of Lesnaya The Russian Victory at Poltava The Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf The...
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    Curonian Spit (category Spits of the Baltic Sea)
    of the Kingdom of Prussia. Deforestation of the spit due to overgrazing, timber harvesting, and building of boats for the Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf in...
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  • coalitions: Kingdom of Great Britain, Prussia, Portugal, Hanover, and other small German states on one side versus the Kingdom of France, Austria-led...
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    fiercely contested Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf on 30 August 1757. In the words of the American historian Daniel Marston, Gross-Jägersdorf left the Prussians...
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    Treaty of Nystad. 1727 – Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal. 1757 – Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russian...
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    рубль; Ukrainian: придністровський рубль) is the currency of the internationally unrecognized state of Transnistria. It is divided into 100 kopecks. Since Transnistria...
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    30 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: A Prussian army under Hans von Lehwaldt is defeated by the Russian army of Marshal Stepan Apraksin...
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    Silesian Wars (category War of the Austrian Succession)
    Prussia's forces. The Russian invaders in East Prussia won the Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf on 30 August, but they made little strategic progress due to recurring...
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    19 18 17 Dresden 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 Prague 7 6 5 4 3 2 1    The Battle of Leuthen /ˈlɔɪtən/ was fought on 5 December 1757 between Frederick the...
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  • Jena-Auerstedt. This article lists all the wars and battles in which Brandenburg-Prussia and the Kingdom of Prussia were militarily engaged in, covering the...
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    Christoph II von Dohna (category Prussian military personnel of the Seven Years' War)
    wars. He was particularly successful at the Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf, and instrumental in relieving Siege of Kolberg. Christoph II descended from an old...
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    19 18 17 Dresden 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 Prague 7 6 5 4 3 2 1    The Battle of Zorndorf, during the Seven Years' War, was fought on 25 August 1758 between...
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  • Coast and defeats Calicut. Battle of Delhi 11 August - Durranis capture Delhi from Mughal Empire Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf 30 August – Russians under...
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    Andrei Rosenberg (category Military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    Kingdom of Prussia in the Seven Years' War and Ottoman Turkey in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–74, including participation in the naval battle of Chesma...
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       The Battle of Kunersdorf occurred on 12 August 1759 near Kunersdorf (now Kunowice, Poland) immediately east of Frankfurt an der Oder. Part of the Third...
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    19 18 17 Dresden 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 Prague 7 6 5 4 3 2 1    The Battle of Kolín (Kolin) on 18 June 1757 saw 54,000 Austrians under Count von Daun...
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       The Battle of Hochkirch took place on 14 October 1758, during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years' War). After several weeks of maneuvering...
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    30 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: A Prussian army under Hans von Lehwaldt is defeated by the Russian army of Marshal Stepan Apraksin...
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    Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin (category Court of Elizabeth of Russia)
    cowardice and incapacity of his friend, the Russian commander-in-chief, Stephen Apraksin, after winning the Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf (30 August 1757), became...
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    Prague 7 6 5 4 3 2 1    The Battle of Lobositz or Lovosice also Lowositz on 1 October 1756 was the opening land battle of the Third Silesian War and the...
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  • Gross-Jägersdorf – 1757 – Seven Years' War Battle of Beshtamak – 1774 – Russo-Circassian War Battle of Kazan (1774) – 1774 – Pugachev's Rebellion Battle of...
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    2 1    In the Battle of Torgau on 3 November 1760, King Frederick the Great's Prussian army fought an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal...
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