Dennewitz

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Dennewitz is a village of Germany, in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, near Jüterbog, 40 m. S.W. from Berlin.

It is memorable as the scene of a decisive battle on the 6 September 1813, in which Marshal Ney, with an army of 58,000 French, Saxons and Poles, was defeated with great loss by an allied army with 50,000 Prussians under Generals Bülow (afterwards Count Bülow of Dennewitz) and Tauentzien. The allied army was lead by the Swedish prince Karl Johan. The site of the battle is marked by an iron obelisk. Napoleons army lost 8,000 men, 50 cannons and 400 supply vehicles. The northern army lost 9,000 men.

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Bülow memorial

Tauentzien memorial

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• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

Coordinates: 51°58′N 13°00′E