After desperate fighting the Army of Silesia carried the village of Chlum in the heart of the Austrian position, and compelled Austrians and Saxons to a hurried retreat over the Elbe.

In this the Austrian infantry was saved from destruction by the heroic stand made by the artillery.

Even so, the allies lost more than 13,000 killed and wounded, 22,000 prisoners, and 187 guns[4].
[4] Sybel, _Die Begruendung des deutschen Reiches_, vol.v.pp.

174-205; _Journals of Field Marshal Count von Blumenthal for 1866 and 1871_ (Eng.
edit.), pp.

37-44.
Koeniggraetz (or Sadowa, as it is often called) decided the whole campaign.