Battle of La Suffel

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Battle of La Suffel

Date	28 June 1815
Location	Souffelweyersheim and Hoenheim , (near Strasbourg)
Result	French victory

Belligerents

V Corps of First French Empire

III Coprs of the Austrian Upper Rhine Army (Seventh Coalition)

Commanders

Jean Rapp

Crown Prince of Würtemberg^[1]

Strength

About 20,000^[1]^[2]

About 40,000^[1]

Casualties and losses

~3,000^[1]

75 officers and 2050 men^[1]

v • d • e Waterloo Campaign

Major engagements in small caps Quatre Bras – Ligny – Waterloo – Wavre Rocheservière – La Suffel – Rocquencourt – Issy

The Battle of La Suffel was a French victory over Austrian forces of the Seventh Coalition and the last French pitched battle victory in the Napoleonic Wars. It was fought on 28 June 1815.

During the Waterloo Campaign, General Jean Rapp rallied to Napoleon Bonaparte and was given command of the V Corps (also know as the Army of the Rhine), consisting of about 20,000 men. He was ordered to observe the border near Strasbourg,^[3] and to defend the Vosges. Ten days after Battle of Waterloo (in which his corps took no part), he met the III Corps of the the Austrian Upper Rhine Army under the command of Crown Prince of Würtemberg near Strasbourg and defeated them at the Battle of La Suffel.^[3]