Conflict: Seven Years' War
Combatants: Russians vs. Prussians
Location: Poland
Outcome: Russian victory
Under orders from Czarina Elizabeth, Field Marshal Count Pyotr Saltykov led 70,000 Russian troops into Brandenburg. Prussian General Richard von Wedell unwisely met this offensive with only 25,000 soldiers. The Prussians suffered 6,000 casualties and were forced to retreat back across the Oder River.
Points of Interest:
The French and Indian War between Great Britain and France provoked further conflict in continental Europe where it was referred to as the Seven Years' or Third Silesian War.
Russia would drop out of the Seven Years' War three years after the Battle of Kay.
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Sources:
Dupuy, Trevor N., Johnson, Curt, & Bongard, David L. (1992). The Harper's Encyclopedia of Military Biography. New York: Castle Books (HarperCollins).
Dupuy, R. Ernest & Dupuy, Trevor N. (1993). The Harper's Encyclopedia of Military History. New York: HarperCollins.
Eggenberger, David (1985). An Encyclopedia of Battles: Accounts of Over 1,560 Battles from 1479 B.C. to the Present. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
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