Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Atherstone" to "Austria"

part in the struggle against Frederick the Great during the Silesian

wars, and again when the Seven Years' War began in 1756. Saxony was in that year attacked by the Prussians, and with so much success that not only was the Saxon army forced to capitulate at Pirna in October, but the elector, who fled to Warsaw, made no attempt to recover Saxony, which remained under the domini...