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The Prussians Invade Saxony.
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The article recalls the Prussian invasion of Saxony on August 29, 1756. At his accession 1740 Frederick the Great of Prussia launched a struggle with Austria for the mastery of Germany which was not settled for another hundred years. The contest with the Hapsburgs was sharpened by the fact that Frederick and Maria Theresa of Austria personally loathed each other. Prussia gained territory in the War of the Austrian Succession in the 1740s. The Seven Years War of 1756-63, which would involve Prussia and Britain on one side against Austria, France, Spain, Sweden and Russia on the other began when Frederick invaded Saxony in 1756.
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