War of the Bavarian Succession
The War of the Bavarian Succession was a war that occurred in 1778 and 1779. The fight is known as the Potato War, because of the time Prussian troops spent picking potatoes in the fields of Bohemia.
When Elector Maximilian Joseph of the house of Wittlesback died in 1777, the Sulzbach line stood as heir to the duchy of Bavaria. Charles Theodore of the Sulzbach was the actual heir who inherited the throne and he proceeded to cede Lower Bavaria to Austria by secret treaty with Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. Prussia and Saxony declared war on Austria on behalf of the interests of Duke Charles of Zweibrucken of Bavaria and invaded Bohemia.
The affair was largely bloodless and ended in the Congress of Teschen in 1779 where Austria gave all but the Inn quarter back to Bavaria. Saxony received financial reward for their role in the intervention.
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