Mollwitz, a village of Prussian Silesia, 7 miles W. of Brieg. An obelisk (1878) marks the battlefield where Frederick the Great with 20,000 Prussians defeated an equal number of Austrians under Marshal Neipperg, April 10, 1741. The Austrians lost 5340 men, the Prussians 5500.
Mollwitz
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 261
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