King Frederick rushes from Saxony, takes over the remnants of Wedel's contingent at Müllrose and moves toward the Oder River.

By August 9, he had forty-nine thousand to fifty thousand troops, enhanced by Finck's defeated corps, and Prince Henry of Prussia's corps moving from the Lausitz region.

Saltykov and the Austrian troops are stretched along the ridge that runs from the outskirts of Frankfurt to just north of the village of Kunersdorf.

Anticipating that Frederick will rely on his cavalry, the Russians effectively negate any successful cavalry charge by using fallen trees to break up the ground on the approaches.

Saltykov's scouts had informed him by August 10 him that Frederick was at the far western edge of Frankfurt.

Accordingly Saltykov takes everything he could from the city by way of sustenance, all oxen, sheep, chickens, produce, wine, beer, in a flurry of ransacking.