In the Battle of Leuthen or Lissa, fought on 5 December 1757, Frederick the Great's Prussian army used maneuver and terrain to decisively defeat a much bigger Austrian army under Prince Charles of Lorraine, thus ensuring Prussian control of Silesia during the Seven Years' War.
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