Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf

Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf
	Part of the Third Silesian War (Seven Years' War)
	; Cossacks and Kalmyks attack Lehwaldt's army.
Date	30 August 1757
Location	Gross-Jägersdorf, East Prussia (near present-day Mezhdurechye, Kaliningrad Oblast)54.62°N 21.48°E
Result	Russian victory
Belligerents
Russia Kalmyk Khanate;	Prussia
Commanders and leaders
Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin; Pyotr A. Rumyantsev; Vasily Lopukhin †	Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt
Strength
54,800 men	24,700–27,700 men
Casualties and losses
5,400 dead and wounded	4,600 dead and wounded; 28 cannons

The Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf (30 August 1757) was a victory for the Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin over a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War. This was the first battle in which Russia engaged during the Seven Years' War.

Despite the tactical success, supply problems made a successful advance further into East Prussia impractical. Apraksin decided not to take Königsberg and ordered a withdrawal soon after the battle. Suspecting collusion between Apraksin and Chancellor Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, who had opposed the invasion, Elizabeth of Russia removed Apraksin from command, ordered Bestuzhev-Ryumin to face trial for treason, and appointed William Fermor as the head of the army. Femor led the army back into East Prussia in the following year.

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