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The extraordinary Battle of Rossbach took place on 5 November 1757 during the Seven Years' War (1756–63) in Saxony (modern Germany) when Prussian forces defeated the combined armies of France and Austria. Despite having half the 40,000 combined armies, the Prussians suffered only 10% of the more than 5,000 dead and wounded. Galway’s Francis Fahy, who suf-fered serious chest wounds, was in that number for the French. A defeated but surviving French Colonel at Rossbach was Kiltulla’s Patrick D'Arcy - a mathematician and an accomplished scientist. Interestingly, in 1749 D’Arcy was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences and was awarded the title ‘Count’. Pictured is the painting ‘Schlacht bei Roßbach’.
This Chronicle was created using information originally published in the South East Galway Archaeological and Historical Society Newsletter No. 28
