Background The Battle of Mars-La-Tour (also known as the Battle of Vionville or Battle of Rezonville) was fought on 16 August 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, near the village of Mars-La-Tour in northeast France. In the evening…
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Battle of Froeschwiller, August 1870
Background The Battle of Wörth, also known as the Battle of Reichshoffen or as the Battle of Frœschwiller, refers to the second battle of Wörth, which took place on 6 August 1870 in the opening stages…
Battle of Loubino, August 1812
Background The Battle of Loubino (Valutino) took place on 19 August 1812, between a corps of French and allied troops led by Marshal Ney, about 30,000 strong, and a strong rear-guard of General Barclay de Tolly’s Russian…
Battle of Vitebsk, July 1812
Background The Battle of Vitebsk, sometimes spelled Witepsk, was a military engagement that took place on 26 and 27 July 1812 during the French invasion of Russia. The battle put a French force, under the command of Emperor Napoleon I, in…
Battle of Piave, May 1809
Background The Battle of Piave River was fought on 8 May 1809 between the Franco-Italian army under the command of Eugène de Beauharnais and an Austrian army led by Archduke John of Austria. The Austrian commander made…
Battle of Flushing, October 1944
Background The city of Antwerp and its port was captured by British 2nd Army in early September 1944. While 21st Army Group’s priority at the time was Operation Market-Garden, no sense of urgency was placed in securing the…
Battle of Raab
Background The Battle of Raab (Hungarian: Győri csata) was fought on 14 June 1809 during the Napoleonic Wars, between Franco-Italian forces and Habsburg forces. The battle was fought near Győr(Raab), Kingdom of Hungary, and ended in a Franco-Italian…
Battle of Salamanca, July 1812
Background In Battle of Salamanca (in French and Spanish known as “Battle of Arapiles”) an Anglo-Portuguese army under the Duke of Wellington defeated Marshal Auguste Marmont’s French forces among the hills around Arapiles, south of Salamanca, Spain on 22 July 1812 during…
Battle of Kulm – August 1813
Background The Battle of Kulm was a battle near the town Kulm (Chlumec) and the village Přestanov in northern Bohemia. It was fought on 29–30 August 1813, during the War of the Sixth Coalition. 32,000 French troops under Dominique Vandamme attacked an army of about 50-60,000 Austrians, Russians and Prussians under Alexander…
Battle of Kulm, August 1813
Background Following the French victory at Dresden, Vandamme pursued the retreating allies. Napoleon sent Marshals Gouvion Saint Cyr and Auguste Marmont to support Vandamme’s corps. With Vandamme in advance, Saint Cyr’s and Marmont’s corps brought up the rear. Vandamme…