Relation of the Battle of Maxen, with a Treatise on Profiles, the Manner of Attacking and Defending Unfortified Heights and Mountains, and Positions ... Maxen. with Plans. Translated by an Officer.

Published by S. Hooper, London, 1785, oversized, 141 pages, also References to the Plans & Publishers Advertisements, , four fold-out plates (plate 2 missing), full leather binding with decorative raised spine and gilt margins, repair to hinges, also antique burn mark in semi-circle on upper edge of front board, external only, (possible from an unattended candle, overall condition: good to very good.

Plate 2 is also missing in other copies I have looked into, poss. printers error.

The Battle of Maxen (20 November 1759) was a battle at Maxen, in the Electorate of Saxony during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years War). It resulted in surrender of a Prussian corps.

The Prussian corps of 14,000 men, commanded by Friedrich August von Finck (one of Frederick the Great's generals), was sent to threaten lines of communication between the Austrian army at Dresden and Bohemia. Field Marshal Count Daun attacked and defeated Finck's isolated corps on 20 November 1759 with his army of 40,000 men. The next day (21 November) Finck decided to surrender.

The defeat at Maxen was another blow to the decimated ranks of the Prussian army, and infuriated Frederick to such an extent that General Finck was court-martialed and sentenced to two years in prison after the war. However, Daun decided not to exploit the success in the slightest to attempt offensive maneuvers and retired to his winter quarters near Dresden, marking the conclusion of the war operations for 1759.