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

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Skalitz (Seven Weeks' War).

Fought June 28, 1866, between the 5th Prussian Army Corps, under General Steinmetz, and the 6th and 8th Austrian Corps, under General Ramming. The Austrians were defeated, and Skalitz occupied by the Prussians, who captured 4,000 prisoners and 8 guns.