ABSTRACT
In accordance with the Prussian tactical doctrine obtaining at the start of the Seven Years War, the infantry were expected to frighten the enemy out of their positions just by advancing towards them with shouldered muskets. Frederick William followed the right wing of the infantry as it advanced up the Homolka-Berg. The main army rested on the north bank, and an additional bridge was built to assure the communications between the two elements of the army. The extensive woodlands prevented Frederick from discovering much of the Russian positions, and consequently at the evening Parole he could convey little more than the outline of the battle which he intended to give on the next day. The Russian troops had begun to intervene in the main conflict, and the first encounter with these folk had engendered a combat of a ferocity which appalled every man who had survived the battle.
