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(in German) Complete online facsimile of a diary of 1813 (in German) Die Eiserne Zeit – picture gallery on the German campaign (in German) Battle of Leipzig (in German) Online literature on the German campaign 1806=15 Archived 11 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Zur Hundertjahrfeier 1813–1913. Raphael Tuck's postcard series 932
The Battle of Dresden (26–27 August 1813) was a major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle took place around the city of Dresden in modern-day Germany . With the recent addition of Austria , the Sixth Coalition felt emboldened in their quest to expel the French from Central Europe .
The battle was the culmination of the German Campaign of 1813 and involved 560,000 soldiers, 2,200 artillery pieces, the expenditure of 400,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, and 133,000 casualties, making it the largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, and the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I.
Leipzig 1813: The Battle of the Nations. London: Osprey. ISBN 978-1855323544. Leggiere, Michael V. (2015). Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany: The Franco-Prussian War of 1813 Volume II, The Defeat of Napoleon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-43975-7. Maude, Frederic Natusch (1908). The Leipzig Campaign, 1813. London ...
The Battle of Luckau was fought at Luckau in Brandenburg on 4 June 1813 during the War of the Sixth Coalition. Prussian and Russian forces under General Friedrich Wilhelm von Bülow defeated part of a French-Allied corps under Marshal Nicolas Oudinot .
The siege of Hamburg was a military engagement of the War of the Sixth Coalition fought between French and Sixth Coalition forces in Hamburg. After being freed from Napoleonic rule by advancing Cossacks and other following Coalition troops it was once more occupied by Marshal Davout's French XIII Corps on 28 May 1813, at the height of the German Campaign of the war.
Articles relating to the German campaign of 1813.Members of the Sixth Coalition, including the German states of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, plus the Russian Empire and Sweden, fought a series of battles in Germany against the French Emperor Napoleon, his marshals, and the armies of the Confederation of the Rhine - an alliance of most of the other German states - which ended ...
In the Battle of Lützen (German: Schlacht von Großgörschen, 2 May 1813), Napoleon I of France defeated an allied army of the Sixth Coalition. The Russian commander, Prince Peter Wittgenstein , attempting to forestall Napoleon's capture of Leipzig , attacked the French right wing near Lützen , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany , surprising Napoleon.