Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Czaslau (War of the Austrian Succession).

Fought 1742, between the Prussians under Frederic the Great, and the Austrians under Prince Charles of Lorraine. The Prussians were driven from the field, but the Austrians abandoned the pursuit to plunder, and the king, rallying his troops, broke the Austrian main body, and defeated them with a loss of 4,000 men.