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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
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 ...
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.
This is a list of sieges, land and naval battles of the War of the Sixth Coalition (3 March 1813 – 30 May 1814). It includes: the German campaign of 1813; the campaign in north-east France; the Campaign in south-west France (final stage of the Peninsular War); the Illyrian campaign, part of the wider Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814;
The siege of Dresden was a siege during the German campaign of 1813 of the War of the Sixth Coalition. Background ... Saint-Cyr surrendered to Klenau on 11 November ...
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 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.
The battle marked a turning point in the German Campaign of 1813 as not only did the Allied victory end Napoleon's hopes of capturing Berlin and knocking Prussia out of the war, but the severity of the French defeat, inflicted by a primarily Prussian force, also led to the erosion of fidelity of German allies to the Napoleonic cause. [9]