The Battle of Hohenfriedberg or Hohenfriedeberg, now Dobromierz, was one of the crowning achievements of Frederick the Great. Frederick's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine on 4 June 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession. Background Austria sought to regain Silesia, which she had lost to Prussia in the Battle of Mollwitz. An Austrian army of about 60,000 (including allied Saxon troops) marched to Silesia. The commander was Pr… (More on Hohenfriedberg)