The Battle of Reichenberg was a battle of the Seven Years' War, fought on April 21, 1757 near the village of Liberec (German Reichenberg) in Bohemia. See also the town of Battle, East Sussex, England Generally, a battle is an instance of combat between two or more parties wherein each group will seek to defeat the others. ... The Seven Years War (1754 and 1756–1763) pitted Great Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony. ... April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... 1757 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Liberec - the town hall Liberec (German: Reichenberg) is a city of the Czech Republic, in the Liberec Region of Bohemia. ... Bohemia Historical map of Bohemia Bohemia is also a place in the State of New York in the United States of America: see Bohemia, New York. ...

Marshall von Bevern had entered Bohemia with a corps of 16,000 Prussians. At Reichenberg he encountered Königsegg's Austrian corps. The full Austrian corps consisted of 18,000 infantry and 4,900 cavalry, but only about 10,000 of them had been concentrated at Reichenberg. 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 exclave of Russia and...

The experienced Bevern defeated his opponent. As a result, Bevern captured large quantities of Austrian supplies and could continue his march on Prague. Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ...