Context: Napoleonic Wars Key People: Laurent, marquis de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr Napoleon I See all related content → Battle of Dresden, (Aug. 26–27, 1813), Napoleon’s last major victory in Germany. It was fought on the outskirts of the Saxon capital of Dresden, between Napoleon’s 120,...
During the Napoleonic wars the cavalry consisted minority of the forces. Napoleon said that "overall the numbers of cavalry in the French army will be 1/6 the strength of infantry. In 1805 Austria had 305,000 infantry and 42,340 cavalry, ratio of 7.2 to 1. In great battles the ratio ...
It proved impossible to increase Victor Moreau’s Army of the Rhine to more than 120,000—too small a margin of superiority to guarantee the success required. Nevertheless, Bonaparte was busy with the creation of an army of reserve which was to be concentrated around Dijon and was destined ...
Armies of the Napoleonic WarsAll you need to know about the armies, infantry, cavalry and artillery that fought in the Napoleonic Wars between 1792 and 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte's French troops, his enemies from Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, their uniforms, weapons, leaders, slang terms, ...
Written by a leading expert on the Prussian army of the Napoleonic era, this title provides crucial insight into the 18th century evolution of the Prussian forces, the war-winning troops of the final battles against Napoleon. Using contemporary materials including drill regulations, instructions, ...
The Motivations of Austrian and Prussian Volunteers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars"Leb' wohl! leb' wohl! / Mit dumpfen Herzensschlgen"1 these were the opening lines, taken from Theodor Krner's poem Abschied von Wien, in Carl Ernst Eduard Pfitzner's diary of his military service...
The defeat of Napoleon’s army in Russia sparked the German people’s war of liberation against the Napoleonic oppression. By the Vienna peace settlement in 1815, Prussia received two-fifths of the territory of Saxony, as well as lands along the Rhine (the Rhineland and Westphalia). Its ...
The contrast between the efficient Prussian war-machine under Helmuth von Moltke with the shambolic performance of the French Army shocked all observers. Within a matter of weeks, the Prussians and their allies had won a series of spectacular victories, leading to Napoleon's abdication and the ...
Irregular, semi-regular and reserve formations comprised a substantial part of the armed forces at the disposal of the Prussian Army throughout the Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the campaigns of the Wars of Liberation, 1813-15. The scale of the uprising of 1813 required the mobilization of...
After the Napoleonic Wars of 1803-1815, the Prussian-Russian border shifted uncomfortably close to Berlin. Posen - as Poznań was called then - was located on the most direct route connecting the Prussian capital and Moscow, and thus an essential roadblock for staving off a possible Russian ...