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

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Gross-Jägersdorf (Seven Years' War).

Fought August 30, 1757, between 28,000 Prussians, under Marshal Lehwaldt, and a largely superior force of Russians, under General Apraxine. The Prussians were defeated, but Apraxine failed to follow up his victory, and recrossed the frontier.