Frederick the Great: The Battle of Liegnitz, 1760 ⚔️ (Part 18)

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On the 15th of August, 1760, a notable engagement took place in Liegnitz, where the Prussian Army, led by the renowned Frederick the Great, fought the opposing Austrian forces commanded by Ernst von Laudon. This battle formed a pivotal part of the Third Silesian War, which was a crucial campaign within the greater conflict of the Seven Years' War.
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🧾 Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:16 Sponsorship
2:34 Towards Liegnitz
10:40 The Battle of Liegnitz
18:08 Aftermath
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📚 Sources:
Asprey, Robert B. Frederick the Great: The magnificent enigma. Ticknor & Fields, 1986.
Blanning, Tim. Frederick the Great: King of Prussia. Penguin UK, 2015.
Clark, Christopher M. Iron kingdom: the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. Harvard University Press, 2006.
Duffy, Christopher. Frederick the Great: a military life. Routledge, 2015.
Fraser, David. Frederick the Great: King of Prussia. Penguin Uk, 2000.
Redman, Herbert J. Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' War, 1756-1763. McFarland, 2014.
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[@jayfelsberg1931]

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[@theylivewesleep4570]

Dawn broke at 3:00 am?

[@Rings-of-Saturn2]

Laudon deserves some props, throughout this series he has been Fredericks most consistently relentless and competent foe. He has been pretty much always victorious even against Frederick in person and had Daun not shown his usual caution, Liegnizt would have been a crushing Austrian victory. He also handled his withdraw from the field at Liegnizt very capably, Frederick was lucky that Daun rather than Laudon was the overall Austrian commander.

[@elmascapo6588]

I really fucking doubt it. After all, it was the agressive strategy of 1757 that lead to the disaster of leuthen Furthermore by the time Daunn arrived on the field, Laudon was being routed off the field by a force half his size I would argue that Fritz would a higher chance to deal a decisive stroke to his enemies had Laudon's agreessive mind been in charge of the army Insteed, Daun never took any of the prussians baits and dealt one of the most complete victories of the war at Maxen, at a much lower cost that what Laudon did at Landshut

[@Rings-of-Saturn2]

@@elmascapo6588 It was Dauns own fault that he failed to co-ordinate properly with Laudon, he was the overall commander. Once Laudon realized he had been left out to dry, he very sensibly chose to withdraw. His orders had been to converge on the Prussian position and launch attacks to fix Frederick in place, he achieved this and had Daun arrived shortly afterwards and attacked, the battle would have been the end of Frederick. Furthermore, it was not aggressive action that led to the disaster at Leuthen but the passivity, inactivity and static position of the Austrian army that failed to properly react to Fredericks flanking movement.

[@elmascapo6588]

@@Rings-of-Saturn2 he had like a third of the prussian army "in check". And even then, he got routed before Daunn could have reasonably conduct an assault The plan was good, the problem was that it was the third tine they did the same. Instead of blaiming Daun, who was not to blame, we have to recognize that Old Fritz pulled a victory out of his fucking ass

[@ohauss]

@@Rings-of-Saturn2 The plan was to fix Frederick IN THE PLAIN with Laudon securing the heights to attack him from there. That plan was moot the moment Frederick snuck up the hill in the dead of night. Even if Daun had attacked, Laudon's forces were already routing. Before Daun could have been able to help them, he'd have had to get through the troops Frederick had arrayed in his direction. If Daun isn't sure he can ride right through them in one go, he risks the troops that have driven off Laudon flanking him, resulting in an even greater disaster.

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

Daun had vast numerical superiority against Frederick, yet he completely wasted his chances to save his partner from defeat. The two were somewhat rivals as Daun was very jealous of Laudon's bigger popularity, who handed Frederick a far worse defeat at Kunersdorf (with Russian help of course).

[@elmascapo6588]

Without a doubt, Old Fritz most underrated victory

[@elivinture6672]

To blunder your army in such a way that you are completely surrounded is impressive, you have to basically be completely detached from your strategic situation, but old Frederick's brilliance saved the day again.

[@1987MartinT]

It is a good example of what to do if you're about to get surrounded by multiple enemy forces: concentrate against one of them, crush it, and break out.

[@rocketshipevan]

I have to admit, up until this battle I hadnt completely understood why Frederick was called "the Great". His back could not have been more against the wall, very impressive.

[@Fliegerabwehrkanone-re1ty]

It's normally the make or break battles that turn out to be heroic victories

[@MintyLime703]

I still don't think it's enough to justify the reputation he has. Prussianboos act like Frederick and Prussia were undefeatable and revolutionized war.

[@elmascapo6588]

​​@@MintyLime703 try reading about Leuthen or Rossbach Or this one, Old Fritz literally took on a fight against an army that outnumbered him 4 to 1. With a ragget demorilised force consisting of forced conscrips and won. The simple fact that he managed to win this war makes him the second best general of his generation, surpassed only by his brother Henry. He did revolutionize warfare, on the tactical field, he introduced horse artillery, that proved incredibly effective in battles like Rossbach, Leuthen, Freiberg, etc. On the strategic sense, his armies managed to move at a ridiculus speed, for instance, his brother saved the city of breslau ( under siege by Laudon) by marching his army 100km in 3 fucking days ensuring Breslau will never fall to the allies for the duration of the war

[@user-mw2vn7pv8n]

​@@elmascapo6588 Damn, 33km per day is a great pace for separate men but with an army? That's insane

[@elmascapo6588]

@@user-mw2vn7pv8n there is a reason why Henry is my favourite general

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[@HoH]

Thank you for noticing! It took years of adjusting, experimenting and improving. It's good to know the result is appreciated. 😄

[@simenonhonore]

An amazing account of a victory against the odds. Thank you for your admirable clarity.

[@SGG167]

I'm not sure if this might be a good idea but when you are nearly finished with this series, I think you should probably do a summary video giving your own takes on battle commanders on both sides to see what they did right or wrong in your personal take.

[@Dokja0]

A very good idea. Would love, just love to see that.

[@yourroyalchungusness]

It was so amazing that the austrian still kept Daun in charge of the army despite the fact he was the reason for this defeat

[@elmascapo6588]

He really wasn't. It was Laudon desition to attack and get fucked

[@Peter-jl4ki]

Politics. The defeated general, on paper, was Laudohn.

[@elmascapo6588]

@@Peter-jl4ki yeah, Daun was like, the hero of kolin

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

Well, Daun was a war hero too (albeit a less popular one) and was much better than his predecessor Prince Charles of Lorraine who lost every battle against Frederick including Leuthen. Daun was a good general overall for his victories at Kolin, Hochkirch & Maxen, but every time he won he refused to take further advantage of his success. However, Laudon inflicted Frederick a much worse defeat at Kunersdorf (despite getting Russian help) and had his far amount of other successes too.

[@elmascapo6588]

@@TheAustrianAnimations87 Laudon was not in command at Kunnendorff ffs

[@blackfish9728]

observing how such brilliant people deal with overwhelming problems/enemies with such confidence and then succeeded surely brings me new perspective of how to deal with mine's properly...

[@HoH]

Agreed. Knowing how hopeless Frederick's situation was during many moments of the war, really puts personal problems in perspective and reinforces the belief that 'when you're going through hell, keep going.'

[@whyjnot420]

It is good to see more and more sources that are not intrinsically hostile towards Frederick the Great. Though I still find that far too many people write him off because evil moustache man had a crush on him.

[@denizergun6325]

No i'm not crying, it's just my eyes sweating from the heat of victory!

[@MajorCoolD]

I am curious: Do you ever intend to make a separate Video on the lives of old Fritz's various Sub-Commanders? repeatedly we have heard from brave Ziethen the Cavalry-Commander and while I have a great historical interest I hardly know much about him (beyond what one can easily find that is). It would be good to know more about the Men who were instrumental in Frederick's sucess.

[@jmvm31]

It definitely made me look at them. The Prussian junker families gave their blood for King and country.

[@KHK001]

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[@HoH]

Glad you like them, it has come a long way!

[@harsimranjitsinghsandhu5777]

Please made a series on war of Spanish succession

[@matthewfernandez1101]

I can never turn the tide of war like King Frederick, he truly is the GOAT

[@metarus208]

awesome battle ... awesome video. Please do a series on the Wars of Louis XIV and the Seven Years War in India and North America

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Great work, please keep covering the seven years war. The visuals and narration are incredible

[@HoH]

Thanks! Happy to hear that!

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[@HoH]

Welcome aboard!

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[@littlekeithy]

I've really enjoyed getting into your KZbin channel this week as i've always had a soft spot for the 18th century (was following the WSS on KZbin last week). Would it be possible to do some overarching piece on the various armies before (and even at the end of the SYW)? For example, I'd be interested in hearing about Russian capabilities and also I've heard about the Reichsarmee as some separate entity to the Austrian armies but was interested in what it actually what it was. Also some of the other German states such as Saxony etc. Anyway, thanks for such an interesting channel

[@Jesse_Dawg]

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[@HoH]

Thank you too!

[@MM22966]

Going to look up more on Laudon now.

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Can't wait for the next chapter!!!

[@Eric-ng2ed]

thank you for these, well done and I look forward to them! very little has been done about the 7 year war. here in the US, I don't even think people know it was a European war, since we know it as the "French and Indian war"

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[@davidhughes8357]

Excellent narration.

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[@HoH]

Glad you enjoyed it!

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[@manualteirac9817]

At 8:06 ..... On the eve of the Battle of Austerlitz, Marshal Davout's III Corps pushed the limits even further by covering 112 km during a 44-hour forced march.

[@robbabcock_]

Great video!

[@dheiyomain6775]

How the hell have i never heard of you before? Great job m8!

[@acbgames1766]

A prime example of defeat in detail

[@michelwardynski6498]

The maps and the art continue to amaze as you consistently raise the bar with each new video.

[@TheStrategos392]

After watching Landon’s previous success, Frederick was the only General capable of taking him head in with a good chance of victory.

[@giasifman9050]

Could you do a video about battle of Legnica??

[@vernonmwallace7200]

Good stuff

[@philliprandle9075]

Great video

[@Weisser69420]

GIVE US MOREE!!!!!!!

[@stefansimonovic9747]

Miss your narration 😢 but hired VO is the step forward as a growing channel

[@HoH]

I miss narrating the videos, but you're right - it's a reality I've come to accept. A professional VO does the video more justice.

[@mikedittsche]

@@HoH You were much better at proper pronounciation though. (Landeshut, Liegnitz, Loudon).

[@jjkoij]

Liegnitz and Rossbach are much alike - monumental comebacks. However, Oscar's narration and final comments made Rossbach the best video of its kind anywhere on KZbin. Don't underestimate your ability to do "justice"! Consider returning yourself!

[@lllPlatinumlll]

The significance of the battle is more important than the effect of sunlight on Earth, there overstated, easy.

[@Spectre1776]

What a great series I'm loving it man after you finish this you should cover the American theater of war during this time period

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Daun was too cautious, and allowed Fritz to defeat Loudon individually.

[@isaacalves97]

i think if the Austrian Generals positions where reeversed, Austria could have won in a close victory kinda way. my argument is if the roles were reeversed, meaning General Loudon being behind in the south where the first engagement was suposed to start and General Daun in the nort facing the suposed remenents of the Prussian forces, i think Austria could have won, my ressening is that, in a reeversed role General Loudon would not hesetate to help Daun, due to his agreesive ideals, therefore Austrian forces would have remaned in the fight with the 2 Austrian armies at first and then seeing the weekening Prussian army Daun would have ralled and join later and forcing Prussia forces to retreat and ultamanly winning the battle.

[@3idraven714]

Great vid, as usual!

[@scuph7637]

grreat video overall but just fyi at 4:45 you mispronounce the name of the fort it's Lan-des-hut (hut like hooters withouth 'ers')

[@enalb5085]

if you haven't you should put all the Fredrick the great battles on a playlist in chronological order

[@HoH]

I have 😉 it's on my channel

[@charlesiragui2473]

The converging armies make Liegnitz look like Leipzig 1813, except the Prussian Fox in extremely close quarters used the Interior Lines, false fires, night marches and use of obscuring hills (his favorite tricks) to escape the trap. In fact, by using the Interior Lines he managed to both outnumber his enemy AND have superior positioning on the hills. The strength of his positions on the hills may have also deterred Daun, who saw that most of the Prussian army hadn't even been committed to the battle, facing him in the force led by Zieten.

[@elmascapo6588]

Actually, acording to what i've read. 2/3 of the army where with Zieten, while Frederick was probably outnumbered, with only some regiments of Zieten's left flank joining the battle

[@charlesiragui2473]

@@elmascapo6588 Yes, I was thinking that too after I wrote this. Nevertheless, Frederick, by moving his entire force in proximity had reserves in place to dominate Laudon, in addition to the decisively favorable positioning he had given himself.

[@elmascapo6588]

@@charlesiragui2473 in short, it was a wonderful piece

[@charlesiragui2473]

@@elmascapo6588 In a pinch, no one was better, even Napoleon.

[@commy1231]

What happened to Daun’s 90 to 120 thousand strong army between Liegnitz and Torgau, when according to wikipedia it numbered only 52 thousand? Was it attrition? Was the army too expensive? Was some of it split off somewhere else?

[@Wuschel1990]

Since we are on the topic of prussian generals and leaders I'd like to see a video or a small series of Helmut von Moltke (the Elder).

[@HoH]

I am currently laying the groundworks for a series on the Wars of German Unification.

[@Wuschel1990]

@@HoH then I will stick around for it.

[@victorhugomarques181]

Awesome

[@the420xtc]

ty

[@majedalaleeli548]

FINALLY

[@KaterKarlo001]

Using the Epic History TV style. Me likey.

[@francismorin8561]

I am curious. What's the source for saying that the French had 150 000 troops mentioned in the video. Everything I have read suggests a force 2-3 times smaller than this.

[@ellingtonGaming]

interesting, the prussian postiioning looks almost identical to the union positioning at gettysburg.

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

How can you outfox a lion? Is it like outsparrowing a squirrel? Or outcowwing a duck?

[@nomooon]

This could have been what Battle of Dresden 1813 is to Napoleon, Napoleon was 44 years old at Dresden, Frederick here is 48 years old, yet more energetic and more appetite for risk than ever, compared to a 44 year old Napoleon.

[@generaltso8278]

Production value increased narration voice sounds much better. Maybe more music tweeking

[@HoH]

Thanks, glad you noticed! What would you change regarding the music?

[@SAADOFFICIAL436]

Yessss sir!! Another video! You made my day! 🙏🙏

[@andraslibal]

Committing piecemeal when you have a staggeringly larger force ...

[@ib33x]

What was Polish-Lithuanian Commonwelth status durign this war?

[@benjaminanderson6709]

I see Epic History TV spawned a thousand imitators

[@armyaj]

I don't know if there's a new person narrating or you changed the mic or what but go back to the old one. I miss the accent and voice narration!! everything else great as usual!

[@dorn0531]

I agree, I really do prefer the original narration. No offence to the new narrator but doesn’t work for me

[@jjkoij]

I feel Oscar appearing before and after the battle was a unique touch to the documentaries, but most of all, the new narrator lacks his passion

[@dorn0531]

@@jjkoij That was exactly what I was thinking, I miss the passionate delivery.

[@diamantinodomingues9641]

The thing actually, in my point of view, is that prussia had the mastery and the luck, Prussia was usually, if not always, outnumbered (heavily), just to survive that is a total feat, winning the 3 Silesean wars is a accomplishment, Even if Prussia was defeated let's say after 3-4 years against the number of enemies presented it would be a great defeat, just one word,AMAZING

[@benjamin112]

Good ol Freddy haha

[@knutderklein9994]

How the turn tables

[@stilianjordanov2952]

The upcoming gruesome and bloody battle you talked about is the Battle of Torgau where King Frederick the Great of Prussia and Field Marshall Leopold von Daun were both wounded, am I right? And also it was there that both sides suffered enormous casualties (the Prussians lost a 1/3 of it's original strength and the Austrians around 20,000 troops)?

[@HoH]

Yep exactly. It's out now (ad-free) for patrons already. 😉

[@OhioDan]

Poor Dresden seems to have gotten burned repeatedly throughout military history.

[@angelostriandos6659]

Ferderick's genius but also. Daun's failure mich like Hannibal, even more because he had 80 000 fresh troops on the battlefield and still superiority.

[@Jean_Jacques148]

How was his failure like Hannibal, for not marching on Rome after Cannae?

[@jarogniewtheconqueror2804]

He is more like Fabius then Hannibal. Fabius was overly cautious and always avoided battles like Daun basically

[@manualteirac9817]

Too much IA image. Anyway good video.

[@christianschrader5927]

I have history balls over here

[@TheSlazzer]

5000 prisoners taken, but in the video it is claimed that no pursuit was undertaken? How was this possible?

[@HoH]

During the fighting, individual companies were likely surrounded and forced to surrender. However, the sources don't provide a clear cut answer.

[@elmascapo6588]

​@@HoH also the wounded

[@jinyap8283]

😮😮😮

[@malcigloe]

Saxon is not Saxen Schleswig Holstein an Nethersaxon is Saxon

[@OrbitalAstronaut]

I would love to see a short video about Fredrick’s terrible childhood and deteriorating mental health during the war. How did this affect his command decisions? Was he right to be depressed?

[@CptSlow89]

This happens when you don't have mobile phones.

[@dominicowusu4195]

The Punic wars

[@user-nx6bc3pc7u]

Looking on three last battles of this war it is clear that Austrians have hobby of incercling

[@BigTeddies]

Encircling*

[@TheSvingen73]

interesting why sweden didnt ally with them

[@brokenbridge6316]

This war was one long n brutal affair for Prussia. A terrible crucible to endure. But the country came out better for it. Or at least that's what I like to think.

[@paulgaskins7713]

Hahaha if Fredrick the great was a modern American politician I bet his rally’s would be off the chain

[@fabbekakan3174]

Nice AI Art

[@gongimmick6269]

Its pronounced lands - hut, not land - shut

[@Sandouras]

Great video but you often repeat the same thing like 10 times before moving on. Like, we get it, they want to encircle Frederick from all sides, you dont have to say multiple times.

[@andraspongracz5996]

Long story short. Daun masterminded the strategy that he (with an army three times larger than Frederick's), Lacy, and Loudon converge on Liegnitz to encircle the enemy. Lacy never moved a finger. Daun marched slowly towards Friedrick, who engaged in a battle against the smallest of the three armies (Loudon's) on high ground. Daun saw this, and was in a position to attack the engaged troops of Frederick (with an army three times larger than the enemy's, and according to his own plan), but went 'meh, whatever'. How is this Frederick's brilliancy again?

[@sumantchowdhary7531]

Frederick specifically moved towards the smaller army of Loudon, hiding his movement from Daun. Yes Daun could at the end have defeated the Prussians if he actually had the balls to attack the King. Regardless of that the brilliance was that Frederick outmanouvered Daun and Laudon and repelled one of the converging armies using approximatly only a third of his army. That was the most he could do and yes at the end he relied on luck. He has done everything he could do, to avoid this predicament, while at the end being saved by Daun not risking to go to battle again against the man, who had decimated an entire Austrian army at Leuthen before.

[@andraspongracz5996]

@@sumantchowdhary7531 Sorry, still not buying it. The success relied on the enemy making the dumbest mistakes they could. An analogy in chess would be to attack the enemy queen, hoping that my opponent wouldn't see it and leave it hanging. That's not brilliance. A gameplay is only brilliant if it works when the opponent is vigilant and acts according to his best interest. Napoleon had some brilliant battles under his belt (e.g., Austerlitz). So did Hannibal (Cannea), Alexander (Issus) and Caesar (Alesia), and many more. I'm not denying that a battle plan can be brilliant. This was not one of those.

[@ohauss]

You're still a bit inconsistent with the pronunciations - as remarked on a previous video, Landeshut has no "sh" sound, "Landes" and "hut" are distinct syllables. Also, in Germany, an "e" after an "i" is not pronounced separately, but a sign of the "i" being lengthened - "Leegnitz". "Daun" would also not be pronounced like "dawn" but more like "down".

[@peterpim6260]

In German you do not hear an e between d and s. Lands hut. Not to speak sh !

[@jram0625]

Why is the video quality on this one so bad? Tried to adjust the settings, but it looks like 240p.

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

Just saying but I would really love it if you would cover the North American theater of the seven years wars aka the French and Indian war and I am saying that because in my opinion people only think of the battles and not what’s happening in the rear of the armies because while the armies were fighting massacres were taking place and an example of one of most overlooked ones is an event that happened in early 1755 and what happened was a raiding party of six Shawnee Indians and four Frenchmen captured a woman named Mary jemison who is best known for her memoir narrative of the life of mrs Mary Jemison and besides her the raiding party captured her mother, father, older sister Elizabeth and her two little brothers Mathew and Robert along with with a young boy from another family however en route to fort Duquesne modern day Pittsburg Pennsylvania the Shawnees killed her parents and siblings leaving her and the boy the only remaining surviving captives however they would survive as once they reached fort Duquesne Mary was given to two Seneca women and after a short ceremony a Seneca family adopted her and gave her the name Dehgewanus which meant pretty girl and then when she came of age Mary Jemison married a Lenape man named Sheninjee and together they had a son who she named Thomas after her father then Sheninjee took her and their son on a 700 mile(1,100km) journey from fort Duquesne to what is now Letchworth State Park in New York although jemison and her son made it her husband didn’t as he was taken ill and died however his clan relatives took her and her son in and she made her home at little beards town modern day cuylerville New York she then married again to a Seneca named Hiakatoo and together they had six kids however one of them named John had a troubled life as he killed his step brother Thomas his brother Jesse and then himself however in 1797 the Seneca sold much of their land and at that time during negotiations with the Holland land company in geneseo Mary jemison proved to be an able negotiator for the Seneca tribe and she even helped win more favorable terms for surrendering their rights to their land at the treaty of big tree but then in 1823 the Seneca sold much of their land except for a two acre tract of land reserved for jemison’s use and then in 1831 she sold her land and moved to buffalo creek reservation which at that time included a good portion of the present day city of buffalo New York and then on September 19th 1833 at the age of 90 she passed away and after she passed away in 1874 at the request of her descendants her remains were transferred and reinterred near the 1765 Seneca council house.

[@christopherstmarin]

Dude. They really don’t like Prussia. What happened that all these countries ganged up of Freddy?

[@Spiderfisch]

Because he invaded silesia without cause

[@jotaro2690]

How do germans see frederick?

[@mikedittsche]

Strongly depends on who you ask. Ask a Bavarian or other southern Germans and the view will be not so favourable. Ask a Berliner or someone from northern Germany and they will say he had brought teaching, enlightenment and freedom of religion to the people and built an economic base that would catapult Prussia onto the world stage.

[@josephwalukonis9934]

I don't think the Saxons would hold him in high regard either. It was bad enough that the captured Saxon rank and file were made to serve in the Prussian Army but outright scandalous that the junior regimental officers were as well.

[@Icbinideifreu]

@@mikedittsche That is not true. He is seen as a big reformer, lover of the arts and science, big thinker and a great military leader in germany. There are no different views.

[@mikedittsche]

@@Icbinideifreu I have heard negative views about him from Bavarians. Some Bavarians love to hate Prussia and everything prussian.