Silesian Wars
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The Silesian Wars were three wars fought in the mid-18th century between Prussia and Habsburg Austria for control of the Central European region of Silesia. The First and Second Silesian Wars formed p
Europe in the years after the Treaty of Vienna (1738) and before the First Silesian War, with Prussia in violet and the Habsburg monarchy in gold
Maria Theresa of Austria c. 1744, by Martin van Meytens
Prussian grenadiers overrunning Saxon forces during the Battle of Hohenfriedberg, as depicted by Carl Röchling
Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1745, by Antoine Pesne
The War of the Bavarian Succession was a dispute between the Austrian Habsburg monarchy and an alliance of Saxony and Prussia over succession to the Electorate of Bavaria after the extinction of the B
Friedrich der Grosse und der Feldscher
Max Joseph, prince-elector and Duke of Bavaria
Charles IV Theodore
Archduke Joseph (portrait by Georg Decker)