The Battle of Liegnitz was a major battle of the Seven Years' War that was fought in 1760 between King Frederick the Great's Prussian army and Ernst Gideon von Laudon's Austrian army.
Frederick did not lose the will to fight in spite of his crushing defeat at the 1759 Battle of Kunersdorf, and he confronted Von Laudon's Austrian army at Liegnitz in Silesia. General Hans Joachim von Zieten's hussars repelled Austrian cavalry attacks in the morning before Prussian artillery repulsed Austrian infantry attacks, and a Prussian counterattack on the left (including a rare bayonet charge against cavalry) forced the Austrians to retreat. While Leopold Joseph von Daun arrived with Austrian reinforcements, he learned of Laudon's defeat and decided not to risk his own army, leaving Frederick victorious.