The Battle of Kunersdorf occurred on 12 August 1759 near Kunersdorf (now Kunowice, Poland) immediately east of Frankfurt an der Oder (the second-largest city in Prussia).Part of the Third Silesian War and the wider Seven Years' War, the battle involved over 100,000 men.An Allied army commanded by Pyotr Saltykov and Ernst Gideon von Laudon that included 41,000 Russians …

The Battle of Liège (5–16 August 1914) [also French: Bataille de Liège] was the opening engagement of the German invasion of Belgium and the first battle of the First World War.The city of Liège was protected by a ring of modern fortresses to form the Fortified position of Liège, one of several fortified cities to delay an invasion to allow troops from the powers which had …

Russia lost more than 200,000. A single battle (the Battle of Borodino) resulted in more than 70,000 casualties in one day. The invasion of Russia effectively halted Napoleon’s march across Europe, and resulted in his first exile, to the Mediterranean island of Elba.