!!!Kolin

Kolin (Kolín), town in the Czech Republic on the upper Elbe 
River. In the  Seven Years' War field marshal L. Daun beat the 
Prussian troops under Friedrich II there on June 18%%sup th/% , 1757; 
subsequently suffered his first major defeat; the Maria Theresia 
military order was founded on the occasion of the Austrian victory.

!Literature
P. Broucek, Der Geburtstag der Monarchie. Die Schlacht bei 
Kolin 1757, 1982; A. Preil, Oesterreichische Schlachtfelder, vol. 2, 
1991.


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