Kunersdorf - Encyclopedia

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KUNERSDORF, a village of Prussia, 4 m. E. of Frankfurton-Oder, the scene of a great battle, fought on the 12th of August 1 759, between the Prussian army commanded by Frederick the Great and the allied Russians under Soltykov and Austrians under Loudon, in which Frederick was defeated with enormous losses and his army temporarily ruined. (See SEVEN YEARS' WAR.)