Filters:
Group: Colmar, free imperial city of
People: Jacob Sprenger
Topic: Zorndorf, Battle of
Location: Loriga Guarda Portugal

Zorndorf, Battle of

Years: 1758 - 1758

The Battle of Zorndorf  is fought between the forces of the Russians troops under the command of Count William Fermor and a Prussian army under King Frederick the Great on August 25, 1758, during the Seven Years' War,

The battle is tactically inconclusive, with both armies holding the ground and claiming victory.

The site of the battle is the Prussian village of Zorndorf (now Sarbinowo, Poland).

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past...Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered."

― George Orwell, 1984 (1948)