The Prussians lost 9,000 men in the fighting, killed, wounded, captured or missing, whereas the Habsburg army’s losses totalled over 40,000, more than half of them taken prisoner. The Austrians and their allies had no more forces to counter the Prussian attack. Moltke occupied Prague and advanced on Vienna. In a short time his requisitioning columns reduced Lower Austria north of the Danube to ‘a vast desert’. His morale broken, Franz Joseph sued for peace.
