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Antique Copper Engraving Görlitz 1757 – Battle Plan Moys Winterfeldt Upper Lusatia Raspe - Rare Copper Engraving 1757 – Battle of Görlitz Moys Death of General Winterfeldt Prussia This is the next showpiece from the Raspe series – and historically, a truly highly emotional drama from Saxon-Silesian Upper Lusatia: The Battle of Moys near Görlitz (1757). This battle is of enormous importance in the Seven Years' War, as it was here that one of Frederick the Great's closest confidants and most capable strategists fell: Lieutenant General Hans Karl von Winterfeldt. The numerically far superior Austrians under Count Nadasty stormed the strategically important Jäckelsberg (Iekelberg). Winterfeldt rushed to the aid of his beleaguered troops, was fatally shot in the chest by a musket ball, and succumbed to his injury shortly thereafter. For Frederick the Great, this loss was a severe personal and military blow. The strikingly large, decorative ribbon cartouche at the top right provides you with the complete and gripping historical background for your description: Title: “PLAN of the Action at Moysberg near Görlitz on the 7th Sept: A. 1757.” Actors & Units: The Imperial-Austrian “Nadaßtische Corps” in conjunction with the “Corps de Reserve under Command of the Duke of Arenberg” (separately drawn at the bottom right) against the Prussian Corps under the leadership of “G. v. Winterfeld.” Details of the “Explication”: The text describes in detail the attack of the imperial hussars in the early morning, the heavy cannonade on the “Zietensche Hussar Camp, ” the advance of the grenadiers under the cover of bushes near the village of Hermsdorf (Hermsdorf) and the assault on the “Holz Berg” as well as the “Iekelberg.” In the middle of it all is the decisive scene: how General Winterfeldt rushed in with the Manteuffel and Tresckow battalions to defend the burning tents, “whereby he himself was fatally wounded, ” whereupon the Prussians had to retreat. Geographical Highlights on the Sheet: At the bottom left, the beautifully color-highlighted city of Görlitz (GÖRLITZ) on the Lusatian Neisse. The battlefield extends over the Moysberg (today Ujazd in Poland), Hermsdorf, Leopoldshain (Leopoldshain), Kuhnern (Kuner), Schönbrunn (Schönbrunn), Moys with the paper mill (Moys Papiermühle), Langenau (Langenau), Posottendorf (Pofottendorff), Leuba (Lefchwitz) as well as the Silesian villages Gross Piesnitz and Klein Piesnitz. Publisher: Fully signed at the bottom right with “Nürnberg at the expense of the Raspische Buchhandlung” (Series “Neues Kriegs-Theater, ” numbered No. 15 at the top right).