Battle at Langenbruck

Battle at Langenbruck

Part of: German War

date	June 24, 1866
place	Langenbruck , Bohemia
output	draw

Parties to the conflict
Prussia	Austria
Commander
Major von Guretzki	Colonel Baron Appel
Troop strength
1 squadron of the 6th Uhlan Regiment	2.5 squadrons of Lichtenstein Hussars
losses
1 man dead, 2 officers and 11 men wounded	1 man dead, 3 officers and 17 men wounded

The battle near Langenbruck was a battle of the German War in 1866.

On June 23, 1866, the Prussian 1st Army began its invasion of Bohemia . Opposite it was the Austrian 1st Light Cavalry Division. So far only small patrol skirmishes had occurred between these two-sided troops and a somewhat larger clash did not take place until June 24th near Langenbruck . On the day mentioned, three squadrons of Lichtenstein and the Radetzky Hussars regiment were posted at Langenbruck under Colonel Baron Appel. Around noon the Prussian 8th Division began to advance on Reichenberger Chaussee. The squadron of the 6th Uhlan Regiment , marching at the head of the 8th Division, attacked a semi-squadron of the Lichtenstein Hussars advanced to Münkendorf and threw them back to Langenbruck. The thrown half-squadron was picked up by two squadrons of Lichtenstein hussars, who in turn attacked the Uhlan squadron and threw it back onto their infantry. The Austrian hussars got caught in a violent small gunfire by the Prussian infantry, which caused them losses and had to retreat to Langenbruck.

literature

• General Military Encyclopedia. Volume 3, Leipzig 1870, p. 289.
• L. v. Better : The Prussian Cavalry in the Campagne 1866. Verlag Alexander Duncker, Berlin 1868, p. 43 f.
• Thaddeus Wanke: The cavalry battle near Langenbruck. Remembering 1866.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Major Franz Ponz von Panz, Austrian military magazine: 1866, 4, p.298
2. ↑ Austria's fights in 1866: Third volume, p.434 list of losses