How Frederick the Great Beat an Army Twice His Size (Leuthen, 1757)

Roughly 35,000 Prussians against up to 65,000 Austrians. On 5 December 1757, near the village of Leuthen in Silesia, Frederick the Great attacked an army far larger than his own – and by nightfall it was shattered. How? A feint in the north, a hidden march behind three low hills on ground his army knew from peacetime manoeuvres, and the oblique order that put all his weight on one end of the enemy line. No fluff – just the ground, the plan and the phases, rebuilt in 3D. Chapters: 0:00 Fog over the frozen plain 1:15 Why Frederick had to attack 1:54 Look at the ground the way Frederick did 2:54 The plan: show one thing, do another 3:44 Phase one: the feint at Borne 4:26 Phase two: the blow at Sagschütz 5:11 Phase three: the fight for Leuthen 5:59 Phase four: the last card 6:53 The obvious question 7:27 The numbers 8:19 Three lessons    • How 2 Shots Beat 1,100 Troops Before Break...      • How 135 Tanks Beat 250 in Flooded Sugarcan...   Numbers for this battle differ between sources. Where they do, we give ranges. Map, terrain and unit positions are a simplified reconstruction for illustration (heights exaggerated). Uniform colours are simplified: the Prussian side is shown in blue, the Austrian side and its allied contingents (Bavaria, Württemberg) in red. Atlas map: hand-drawn; coastlines, rivers and the borders of 1757 are simplified. Soldiers, guns, buildings and maps: own low-poly models. Horse model: low-poly model made for this channel (Higgsfield image-to-3D, used in earlier videos). #FrederickTheGreat #SevenYearsWar #MilitaryHistory