Russian invasion of Brandenburg (Third Silesian War)
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Was the Russian invasion of Brandenburg during the Third Silesian War.
Chronology
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August 1758: Advancing Russians, who had by then reached the borders of Brandenburg, besieged and burned Küstrin.
December 1761: The town of Kolberg, located in modern-day Poland, was besieged by Russian forces in 1761 during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian garrison, led by Lieutenant Colonel August von Gneisenau, was forced to surrender due to the town's weakened defenses.
October 1757: Cavalrymen of the Holy Roman Empire attacked and briefly occupied Berlin, the capital of Prussia.
July 1758: The Russians continued to press into Neumark. On 23 July the new Russian commander, Count Pyotr Saltykov, led 47,000 men in defeating 26,000 Prussians commanded by General Carl Heinrich von Wedel at the Battle of Kay.
October 1760: With Prussian forces concentrated in Silesia and Saxony, Brandenburg was left largely undefended. In early October a Russian corps under General Gottlob Heinrich Tottleben advanced through Neumark and joined Lacy's Austrians in briefly occupying Berlin.
August 1758: Russian Field Marshal Saltykov reached and occupied Frankfurt an der Oder.
October 1757: The Holy Roman Empire army leaves Berlin.
October 1758: Despite the coalition's overwhelming superiority of force in Brandenburg, Russia withdrew from Prussian territory (but not from East Prussia).
October 1760: A rumour that Frederick the Great was marching to the rescue of Berlin with his superior forces prompted the commanders to withdraw from the city as they had completed their major objectives. The occupiers withdrew from the city on 12 October. he Russians rejoined their main army in the vicinity of Frankfurt.
