The Battle Hostile_encounter of Leuthen was fought Hostile_encounter on 5 December 1757 , at which Frederick the Great 's Prussian army used Using maneuver and terrain to decisively defeat Hostile_encounter a much larger Austrian force commanded Control by Prince Charles of Lorraine and Count Leopold Joseph von Daun .

Leuthen was the last battle Hostile_encounter at which Prince Charles commanded Control the Austrian Army , before his sister-in-law , Empress Maria Theresa , appointed Choosing him as governor of the Habsburg Netherlands and placed Placing Leopold Joseph von Daun in command Control of the army .

( The small Ordain of Russian knights for exception of its active member Alexander von Benckendorff also joined Becoming_a_member the Union of Prosperity together with the members of the Union of Salvation . )

French dragoons supported Supporting by infantry and commanded Control by General Exelmans destroyed Destroying a Prussian brigade of hussars under the command Control of Lieutenant Colonel Eston von Sohr ( who was severely wounded Bodily_harm and taken Conquering prisoner during the skirmish ) .

9 , led by Rittmeister Oskar von Blumenthal , discovered Know that Marshal François Bazaine 's 160,000-man Army of the Rhine was attempting to escape Escaping from Metz to join with French forces at Verdun .

This intelligence Perception_active prompted Preventing_or_letting General Prince Friedrich Karl , commander of the Prussian Second Army , to order Arranging at 1900 on 15 August a grossly outnumbered group of 30,000 men of the advanced Cause_to_make_progress III Corps under General Constantin von Alvensleben to cut off Having_or_lacking_access the French line of retreat Escaping at Mars-la-Tour and Vionville .

The arrival Arriving of X Corps under General Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz to the west and that of IX Corps under General Albrecht Gustav von Manstein to the east , solidified Cause_change_of_strength the German position after 1600 .

The arrival Arriving of X Corps under General Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz to the west and that of IX Corps under General Albrecht Gustav von Manstein to the east , solidified Cause_change_of_strength the German position after 1600 .

In December 1582 , Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg , the Prince-elector of Cologne , converted Change to Protestantism .

Instead , he declared Expressing_publicly religious parity for his subjects and , in 1583 , married Forming_relationships Agnes von Mansfeld-Eisleben , intending to convert Change the ecclesiastical principality into a secular , dynastic duchy .

After defeating Conquering Emperor Napoleon at the Battle of La Rothière , the two main Allied armies under Austrian Field Marshal Karl Philipp , Prince of Schwarzenberg and Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher separated Forming_relationships .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Lubrze was a night battle Hostile_encounter which took place Process_start during the Deluge ( part of the Second Northern War Military_operation ) in August 1656 between Polish forces under voivode of Kalisz Andrzej Karol Grudziński and a Swedish-Brandenburg force under Jan Wejhard von Wrzesowicz .

Throughout the night fighting Hostile_encounter Polish soldiers decimated Destroying the Swedish-Brandenburg division ( source vary from 800 to 2000 strong ) , both in the village and on the banks of a small stream where defenders took Conquering flight , killing Killing between 500 and 800 officers and men ( entire command of 800 officers and men according to des Noyers ) , taking Conquering many prisoners Prison including a Prussian colonel and his trumpeter , while the Swedish commander , Jan Wejhard von Wrzesowicz , was killed Killing by the peasants while in flight Self_motion from the battlefield .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of the Ancre was fought Hostile_encounter by the Fifth Army ( Lieutenant-General Hubert Gough ) , against the German 1st Army ( General Fritz von Below ) .

For the Wehrmacht defeat Conquering , the commander of Army Group South Erich von Manstein and the commander of Army Group A Ewald von Kleist were dismissed by Hitler and replaced Change_of_leadership by Walther Model and Ferdinand Schörner respectively .

For the Wehrmacht defeat Conquering , the commander of Army Group South Erich von Manstein and the commander of Army Group A Ewald von Kleist were dismissed by Hitler and replaced Change_of_leadership by Walther Model and Ferdinand Schörner respectively .

According to German General Kurt von Tippelskirch , this was the biggest Wehrmacht defeat Conquering since Stalingrad .

For the Wehrmacht defeat Conquering , the commander of Army Group South Erich von Manstein and the commander of Army Group A Ewald von Kleist were dismissed Dispersal by Hitler and replaced Change by Walther Model and Ferdinand Schörner respectively .

For the Wehrmacht defeat Conquering , the commander of Army Group South Erich von Manstein and the commander of Army Group A Ewald von Kleist were dismissed Dispersal by Hitler and replaced Change by Walther Model and Ferdinand Schörner respectively .

The Ulm Campaign in October 1805 was catastrophic for Austria , with only the corps of Michael von Kienmayer and Franz Jellacic escaping Escaping envelopment Besieging and capture Conquering by the Grande Armée of Napoleon .

The Schlieffen Plan ( , ) was a name given , after the First World War , to German war plans , the influence of Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen and his thinking on an invasion of France and Belgium which began on 4 August 1914 .

( colonel-general ) helmuth von moltke the younger , succeeded schlieffen as chief of the german general staff in 1906 and was dismissed after the first battle of the marne ( unk september 1914 ) .

Post-war writing by senior German officers like Hermann von Kuhl , Gerhard Tappen , Wilhelm Groener and the historians led by the former ( Lieutenant-Colonel ) Wolfgang Förster , managed Preventing_or_letting to establish a commonly accepted narrative that it was the failure to follow the blueprint by Moltke the Younger , rather than German strategic miscalculation , that condemned Judgment_communication the belligerents to four years of attrition warfare instead of the quick , decisive conflict it `` should '' have been .

Treating the plan as a blueprint was rejected Agree_or_refuse_to_act , because this was contrary to the tradition of Prussian war planning established by Helmuth von Moltke the Elder , in which military operations were considered to be inherently unpredictable .

The fall of Strasbourg on 28 September 1870 allowed Preventing_or_letting the German army under August von Werder to move Motion south against Belfort .

German forces grew Expansion impatient with the length of the siege and on 27 January 1871 , General von Tresckow launched Process_start an attack on the city which was repulsed Defending and the siege Besieging operations resumed Process_start .

The strategically important Halfaya Pass was taken Conquering against stiff Italian opposition , and deeper inside Libya Fort Capuzzo was captured Conquering , but German counter-attacks Attack under Colonel Maximilian von Herff regained Getting the fort during the afternoon causing Causation heavy casualties Catastrophe amongst its defenders .

the germans began Process_start systematic fortification of the area , according to a directive from erich von falkenhayn the german army chief of staff , to fortify the western front so that a small number of infantry could defend Defending the front indefinitely and later in the year began Process_start work on second and third defensive positions but in the somme area , the defences north of the unk were improved Cause_to_make_progress first and by july 1916 the first position defences around mametz were extensive but the second position was a shallow trench and the third position had only been marked Recording out .

following british defeats at the first and second battles of gaza in march and april 1917 , lieutenant general philip chetwode commanding Control the eef 's eastern force and kress von kressenstein 's ottoman empire force had each adopted Choosing a defensive posture and a stalemate had developed Coming_to_be in southern palestine .

The Danish had an army of about 13,000 under the personal command of 31-year-old King Christian V of Denmark , aided Assistance by General Carl von Arensdorff .

After the German victory at Wörth , troops from the Grand Duchy of Baden under Prussian General August von Werder were detached to capture Arrest Strasbourg with the help Assistance of two Prussian `` Landwehr '' divisions which had been guarding Defending the North Sea coast .

Nine corps of the French Sixth Army and the British Fourth and Third armies , attacked Attack the German 2nd Army ( General Fritz von Below ) from Foucaucourt south of the Somme northwards across the Ancre to Serre and at Gommecourt , beyond , in the Third Army area .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Castiglione saw the French Army of Italy under General Napoleon Bonaparte attack Attack an army of Habsburg Monarchy led by `` Feldmarschall '' Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser on 5 August 1796 .

On 20 July 1944 , Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Killing Adolf Hitler , Führer of Nazi Germany , inside his Wolf 's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg , East Prussia .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Bucharest , also known as the `` Argeş–Neajlov Defensive Operation Hostile_encounter '' in Romania , was the last battle Hostile_encounter of the Romanian Campaign Military_operation of 1916 in World War Military_operation I , in which the Central Powers ' combatants , led Bringing by General Erich von Falkenhayn , occupied Control the Romanian capital and forced Request the Romanian Government , as well as the remnants of the Romanian Army to retreat Escaping to Moldavia and re-establish Recovering its capital at Iaşi .

There , the Bulgarian and German armies led Bringing by General August von Mackensen reported Reporting a glorious victory Earnings_and_losses .

In September 1805 the Electorate of Bavaria under Prince-elector Maximilian I Joseph of Wittelsbach , that had been allied Collaboration with the Habsburg Monarchy under the common federally structured Holy Roman Empire , went Change over to Napoleonic France : the Bavarian Minister Count Maximilian von Montgelas , realizing the French superiority while fearing the ambitions of the newly established Austrian Empire , signed Sign_agreement a secret defence alliance at Bogenhausen .

In February 1625 , a second relief force , consisting Cause_to_be_included of 7,000 English troops under the leadership of Horace Vere and Ernst von Mansfeld , was also driven Motion off by Spinola .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of San Germano ( or the Battle Hostile_encounter of Mignano ) was the final battle Hostile_encounter in the Neapolitan War Hostile_encounter between an Austrian force commanded Control by Laval Nugent von Westmeath and the King of Naples , Joachim Murat .

In 1534 , the Danish Count 's Feud Quarreling spilled Filling over into the Low Countries where the Guelders Wars Hostile_encounter were raging , when Habsburg supported Supporting Enno II , Count of East Frisia , ally of Christopher of Oldenburg and Charles , Duke of Guelders supported Supporting Balthasar Oomkens von Esens , ally of Christian III of Denmark .

The Archduke wanted to secure the Rhine crossings so he could send Sending troops to northern Italy to relieve Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser at besieged Mantua ; an armistice with Moreau would allow Preventing_or_letting him to do that .

Late on 23 May , a halt order Arranging was issued Statement by `` Generaloberst '' Gerd von Rundstedt , commander of Army Group A. Adolf Hitler approved Preventing_or_letting the order Arranging the next day and had the German High Command Request send Sending confirmation to the front .

Throughout the day , Polish forces under Jan Skrzynecki fought Hostile_encounter for the control Control over the town of Ostrołęka against the assaulting Attack Russian forces of Hans Karl von Diebitsch .

Battle Hostile_encounter of Saint Gotthard was fought Hostile_encounter on December 13 , 1705 between a Hungarian ( Kuruc ) army led Conquering by János Bottyán and an Austrian-Croatian-Serbian combined army under the command Control of Hannibal von Heister .

The 1805 war Hostile_encounter began Process_start with the Ulm Campaign Military_operation which was disastrous Catastrophe for Austria , with only the corps of Michael von Kienmayer and Franz Jellacic escaping Escaping envelopment Besieging by the Grande Armée of Napoleon .

With Captain Karl von Müller in command Control , on the night of 22 September 1914 , SMS `` Emden '' quietly approached Arriving the city of Madras on the southeastern coast of the Indian peninsula .

This West Russian Volunteer Army included Cause_to_be_included Germans and former Russian prisoners of war Military_operation nominally allied Collaboration with the White Army in the Russian Civil War Military_operation , but both Bermondt-Avalov and von der Goltz were more interested Change_sentiment in eliminating Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the nationalists than fighting Hostile_encounter the Bolsheviks .

Dietrich von Choltitz , commander of the German garrison and the military governor of Paris , surrendered Surrendering to the French at the Hôtel Meurice , the newly established Building French headquarters .

Prince Este garrisoned Hostile_encounter Warsaw with 10,000 soldiers , and split his remaining Temporary_stay forces , sending Sending some 6,000 troops under Gen. Johann Friedrich von Mohr to the right bank of the Vistula , and the rest towards Toruń and other targets on the left bank .

erich von falkenhayn , chief of the german general staff ( ) since 14 september , concluded Coming_to_believe that a decisive victory could not be achieved Achieve on the western front and that it was equally unlikely in the east .