Battle of Altenburg
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. At Battle of Altenberg (28 September 1813) a combined Sixth Coalition cavalry force of Germans, Austrians and Russian Cossacks under the command on General Johann Thielmann defeated a French detachment under the command of General Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes at Altenberg (near Pirna), and took over 1,000 prisoners. The Austrian contingent by Emmanuel Mensdorff and the Russian of Cossacks was commanded by Matvei Platov.[1][2]
The battle was the culmination of a raid in which Thielmann cavalry successfully attacked Napoleon's lines of communications along the roads between Erfurt and Leipzig in the Saale valley.[1][3]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jaques 2007, p. 40.
- ↑ UMKP staff 1813, p. 330.
- ↑ Clarke 1815, pp. 631–632.
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