The Battle of Zellerfeld was fought in 1759 between the armies of France and Great Britain during the Seven Years' War.
After defeating a British and German army at the Battle of Festenburg, the French general Victor-Francois de Broglie decided to withdraw north and replenish his ammunition reserves before taking on a field army encamped nearby. However, a smaller British-Hanoverian force attacked him first, drawing him into an engagement at Zellerfeld. The French cavalry advanced on both flanks and routed the British units that guarded them, enabling the French infantry to encircle and destroy the main body of British and German soldiers. However, the French center and cavalry suffered heavy losses, bearing the brunt of the Allied counterattacks; one of the French Royal Army's cavalry regiments was forced to disband due to its disastrous casualties.
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