Background
While Frederick the Great was campaigning in central Germany, routing a combined Franco-Imperial army at the Battle of Rossbach, the Austrians had managed to slowly retake Silesia. Frederick had arrived on 28 November to find that the primary city in Silesia, Breslau (Wrocław), had just fallen to the Austrians. He arrived near Leuthen (Lutynia) to find an army that was twice the size of his. The commanders in charge of the Austrian army had earlier argued about whether to march out of Breslau to face Frederick, Prince Charles had won the argument. The weather was foggy, but the entire area had once been a training ground for the Prussian army, so Frederick the Great knew the terrain intimately.
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