Barecke, The Battle of Liegnitz on 15 August 1760.

Lecture delivered at the Military Society in Berlin on 23 January 1906, in: Supplement to the Military Weekly, pp. 187 ff.

Frederick the Great. After an engraving by D. Chodowiecki (*16.10.1726 in Danzig; † 07.02.1801 in Berlin) from the year 1758.

Battle plan of the Battle of Liegnitz. Taken from: Taken from: Walter Elze, Frederick the Great. Intellectual World - Fate - Deeds, Berlin 1939, p. 196.

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