Schematic plan · The Seven Year's War

Battle of Lobositz

1 October 1756
Bohemia
Victory for Prussia

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A schematic plan, generated from the statistics of the CAA Database of Battles: the armies' size and width, the hours of fighting, the plan of attack and the outcome are as recorded; the ground and the positions are not.

Prussia (Pr Army, 29,000 men under Frederick II) attacked Austria (Aus Army, 34,500 men under Browne) in Bohemia. The CAA Database of Battles records 4 hours of fighting on a front of 3.2 km, a frontal attack against hasty defense, and that Prussia won. Losses: Prussia 2,906 (10%), Austria 2,873 (8%).

This plan is generated from those figures. It shows the shape of the battle the database describes: the size and width of the armies, the plan of attack and the outcome. It does not show where the units actually stood.

The armies

Prussia

Frederick II

Unit	Arm	Men
Prussia left wing	Infantry	4,019
Prussia centre	Infantry	5,358
Prussia right wing	Infantry	4,019
Prussia reserve	Infantry	3,349
Prussia cavalry of the left	Cavalry	5,400
Prussia cavalry of the right	Cavalry	5,400
Prussia artillery (97 guns)	Artillery	1,455
Frederick II	Commander	—
In this plan		29,000

Austria

Browne

Unit	Arm	Men
Austria left wing	Infantry	6,142
Austria centre	Infantry	8,189
Austria right wing	Infantry	6,142
Austria reserve	Infantry	5,118
Austria cavalry of the left	Cavalry	3,750
Austria cavalry of the right	Cavalry	3,750
Austria artillery (94 guns)	Artillery	1,410
Browne	Commander	—
In this plan		34,501

What the sources report

	Prussia	Austria
Strength, this plan	29,000	34,500
Losses, this plan	2,906	2,873

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 64, “Lobositz”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 4 hours
Winner: the attacker
Terrain: Rolling, Mixed
Weather: Dry, Sunny, Temperate, Autumn, Temperate
Defender’s posture: Hasty defense
Front width: 3.2 km (attacker), 5.6 km (defender)

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
Prussiaattacker	29,000	2,906	10,800	97	Frontal attack; Penetration
Austriadefender	34,500	2,873	7,500	94	Defensive/offensive plan; Frontal attack; Withdrew

Attacker’s advantages leadership +1

CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0.

Notes

On this reconstruction

Generated automatically from the statistics in CDB90. Frontages, depths, distances, the order of events and the terrain are schematic: they follow the recorded strengths, front widths, hours of fighting, tactical plan and outcome, not maps or accounts of the battle. The sources give no hours; the timing is conjectural.

Sources

US Army Concepts Analysis Agency; tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold, CAA Database of Battles (CDB90), no. 64 · ODC-BY-1.0Strengths, losses, front widths, hours of fighting, tactics and outcome.
Wikipedia contributors, Battle of Lobositz · CC-BY-SA-4.0

Facts gathered from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons (licence per file); the plan and its text are timeastra’s own.