In the Battle of Königgrätz or Battle of Sadowa of July 3 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE55Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE60Fixes.css; /**/ July 3 From Wikipedia July 3rd is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 181 days remaining. Events 300-1899 323 - Battle of Adrianople... July 3, 1866 is a common year starting on Monday. Events January – June January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with men of a Maronite leader Karam in St. Doumit in Lebanon - Turks are defeated January 12 - Royal Aeronautical Society is formed ( London) January 28 - 800 Maronite troops clash with Ottoman troops... 1866, the The Austro-Prussian War (also called the Seven Weeks War) was a war fought between Austria and Prussia in 1866 that resulted in Prussian dominance in Germany. In Germany and Austria it is called Deutsch-Deutscher Krieg or Bruderkrieg (war of brothers) Causes For centuries, the Holy Roman Emperors in... Austro-Prussian War was decided in favor of The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia ( German: Preußen or Preussen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad... Prussia.

The Austrian army, led by Ludwig von Benedek, was concentrating just north of Hradec Králové (German Königgrätz) near the village of Sadová in eastern Bohemia is also a place in the State of United States of America: see Bohemia, New York. Bohemia (Čechy in Czech, Böhmen in German) is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western and middle thirds of the Czech Republic. With an area of 52,750 sq... Bohemia, and the Prussians, led nominally by King Wilhelm I of Germany Wilhelm I, (March 22, 1797 - March 9, 1888), German Emperor (Kaiser), ruled January 18, 1871-1888 and king of Prussia, ruled 1861-1888. His full name was Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig. Early Life and Military Career As second son of Friedrich Wilhelm III Wilhelm had no expectations... Wilhelm I, but in reality by Chief of the General Staff Graf Moltke Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (October 26, 1800 - April 24, 1891), who became Helmuth Graf von Moltke in 1870, was a famous Prussian general. Born in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin to an old noble family, Moltke first joined the Danish service, studying at the military academy at Copenhagen and... Helmuth von Moltke, decided to converge their three armies (the First Army of Prince Friedrich Karl Nicholas of Prussia (20 March 1828-15 June 1885) was the son of Karl of Prussia (1801-1883) and his wife Marie Louise of Saxe-Weimar (1808-1877). He was born at Schloß Klein in Berlin. On 29 November 1854 at Dessau he married Maria Anna von... Prince Friedrich Karl; the Army of the Elbe under Karl Herwarth von Bittenfeld; and the Second Army, under Friedrich III of Germany. Friedrich III (October 18, 1831 - June 15, 1888), German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruled 1888. Born the son of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (younger brother of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV), in 1858 Friedrich married Princess Victoria (Vicky) of Great Britain and Ireland, the eldest... Crown Prince Friedrich) on the Austrian positions.

Historical map of the Battle of Königgrätz

The armies arrived in position by July 3, and in a heavy rainstorm, the First Army and the Army of the Elbe attacked the Austrian army at dawn, but the Crown Prince's Second Army, due to a Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far away and grapho = write) is the long distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. Radiotelegraphy or wireless telegraphy transmits messages using radio. This definition includes recent forms of data transmission such as fax, email, and computer networks... telegraphic failure, was not notified and did not engage in the battle. A fierce Austrian counterattack held off the Prussians, whose attack was halted by 11 AM, but Benedek refused to call for a cavalry charge which might have won the battle.

At 2:30 PM the Crown Prince finally arrived, having been ordered to engage by a note sent by Moltke through a courier, and hit the Austrians, while the Prussian artillery pounded the Austrian center. The superiority of the Prussian " The Dreyse needle-gun (German das Zündnadelgewehr or figuratively firing-pin rifle) was a military breechloading rifle, famous as the arm of the Prussians in 1866 and of the Germans in 1870 and 1871. It was the invention of the gunsmith Johann Nicholas von Dreyse (1787—1867), who... needle-gun" A rifle is any long gun which has a rifled barrel. A rifled barrel incorporates two or more helical grooves in its bore which impart a spin upon the projectile (usually a bullet) as it travels down the barrel. The angular momentum thereby imparted to the projectile partially insulates it... rifle, which was A breech-loading weapon, usually a gun or cannon, is one where the bullet or shell is inserted, loaded, into the gun at the rear of the barrel, the breech; the opposite of muzzle-loading. All modern mass production guns are breech loading. The main advantage of breech_loading is a... breech-loading and could be reloaded quickly and operated while lying prone, while the Austrians had to stand up after each shot to reload their obsolete A muzzleloader is any firearm into which the bullet is loaded from the muzzle of the gun. This can apply to anything from cannons to pistols, but in modern parlance the term most commonly applies to black powder small arms. In general, the sequence of loading is to put in... muzzle-loading rifles, proved decisive, and Benedek was forced to order a withdrawal.

The battle was decisive in the war, and an armistice was agreed to almost immediately.