page_title: Battle of Königgrätz
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Königgrätz / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial to Battery of the Death at Chlum conmemorates one of heaviest fights during Battle of Battle of Königgrätz (July 3, 1866). Čeština: Pomník Baterie mrtvých na Chlumu, připomínající jedno z nejtěžších střetnutí bitvy u Hradce Králové 3. 7. 1866. Pomník rakouské jízdní dělostřelecké baterie č. 7./VI1I. (tzv. „Mrtvé baterie"). Monumentální pískovcový sloup na vrcholu se sochou Austrie. Sloup bohatě zdoben bronzovými reliéfy a drobnými plastikami s vojenskými náměty. Zřízen Komitétem s přispěním vojenského řádu Marie Terezie a rakouského dělostřelectva. Podle návrhu architekta Václava Weinzettla provedl Jan Jandera z Hořic. Sochu Austrie podle návrhu prof. Arnošta Poppa zhotovil Ant. Šešina z Hořic. Bronzové odlitky dodala firma V. Maška z Prahy - Karlína. Měděný věnec je od cizeléra F. Houdela z Prahy a železné řetězy jsou od bratrů Pechánkových z Hořic. Pomník odhalen 3. 10. 1893.
context_page_description: The Battle of Königgrätz was the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War in which the Kingdom of Prussia defeated the Austrian Empire. It took place near Königgrätz and Sadowa in Bohemia on 3 July 1866.
  The heavily outnumbered Prussian infantry used their superior training and tactical doctrine and the Dreyse needle gun to win the battle and the entire war at Königgrätz on their own. Prussian artillery was ineffective and almost all of the fighting on the Prussian side was done by the First Army under Prince Friedrich Karl and one division from the Second Army. The Prussian 7th Infantry Division and 1st Guards Infantry Division attacked and destroyed 38 out of 49 infantry battalions of four Austrian corps at the Swiepwald and Chlum at the center of the battlefield, deciding the outcome of the struggle and forcing an Austrian retreat at 15:00, before any Prussian reinforcements could even seriously engage the Austrian flanks.
context_section_description: Königgrätz was the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War. The Prussians then continued to pursue the defeated Austrian Nord-Armee and fought a series of minor clashes, with the last skirmish being fought at Blumenau on July 22, just as the Peace of Prague to put a halt to the fighting was being signed. It provided a great opportunity for Prussian statesmen, by clearing a path toward German unification, in particular with the Little Germany (Germany without Austria) solution, with the subsequent foundation of the North German Confederation. The outcome also ensured that Prussia would have a free hand when a war with France came to pass in 1871.
  After this Prussian victory, France attempted to extract territorial concessions in the Palatinate and Luxembourg. In his speech to the Reichstag on 2 May 1871, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck stated:
  It is known that even on 6 August 1866, I was in the position to observe the French ambassador make his appearance to see me in order, to put it succinctly, to present an ultimatum: to relinquish Mainz, or to expect an immediate declaration of war. Naturally I was not doubtful of the answer for a second. I answered him: "Good, then it's war!" He traveled to Paris with this answer. A few days after one in Paris thought differently, and I was given to understand that this instruction had been torn from Emperor Napoleon during an illness. The further attempts in relation to Luxemburg are known. 
  The Königgrätzer Marsch was written to commemorate the battle.
  The French public resented the Prussian victory and demanded "Revanche pour Sadova" or "Revenge for Sadowa", which formed part of the background to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
caption: Memorial at Chlum (now Všestary, Czech Republic), commemorating the battle.
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