Battle of Altenburg

Battle of Altenberg Part of The German campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition Battle of Altenburg engraved by Ant. Tessaro Date 28 September 1813 Location Altenberg Result Coalition victory Belligerents Prussia  Russia  Austria French Empire Commanders and leaders General Thielmann General Lefebvre-Desnouettes Casualties and losses 1,000 taken prisoner.[1]

German Campaign Lützen Bautzen Haynau Hamburg Luckau Großbeeren Katzbach Dresden 1st Kulm Dennewitz Feistritz 2nd Kulm Göhrde Altenburg Leipzig Hanau Danzig Danish front Bornhöved Sehested War of the Sixth Coalition Lützen Bautzen Hamburg Luckau Großbeeren Katzbach Dresden 1st Kulm Dennewitz Feistritz 2nd Kulm Göhrde Leipzig Hanau Caldiero Danzig Bornhöved Sehested Metz Hoogstraten Brienne La Rothière Mincio Six Days Mormant Montereau Bar-sur-Aube Gué-à-Tresmes Craonne Laon Reims Arcis-sur-Aube Fère-Champenoise Saint-Dizier Montmartre Paris German Campaign Campaign in north-east France Campaign in south-west France

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 Russian of Cossacks was commanded by Matvei Platov and the Austrian contingent by Emmanuel Mensdorff.^[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]

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References

• Clarke, Hewson (1815), "Twelfth Bulletin", An Impartial History of the Naval, Military and Political Events in Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Entrance of the Allies Into Paris, and the Conclusion of a General Peace [...], Brightly & Childs, pp. 631–632 
• Jaques, Tony, ed. (2007), Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century (3 volumes ed.), Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 40, ISBN 978-0-313-33536-5 
• UMKP staff (1813), The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, J. Hinton, p. 330