Battle of Dennewitz

The battles of Dennewitz (to 68 km in the south-south-west of Berlin) took place the September 6th 1813 within the framework of the war of the 6 {{E}} coalition between a French army carried out by the marshal Ney and of the Prussian troops ordered by the marshal Friedrich von Bülow.

After the defeat of Large Beeren 58 000 men whose 38e division wurtembergeoise and the 15th Italian division received the order of Napoleon Bonaparte to occupy Berlin.

The heavy cavalry (dragons of Defrance) is a troop of elite and the infantry of the 12th division of Morand is inexperienced but valorous. She pushes the rear-guard of the 4th body of Tauenzien. The 4th body of Bertrand has just taken the town of Dennewitz and starts to be spread to continue its advance. Tauenzien decided to resist because on its right wing the 3rd body of von Bülow appears; that is to say a total of 50 000 men of an average military value.

At 16:00 the Swedish army of north ordered by Bernadotte arrives. Ney orders the retirement until Torgau, on the Elba. It is a French defeat.

Consequences

The French and their allies lose 8 000 men, 50 guns and 400 charriots of supply. The Prussians have 9 000 victims, Swedes about thirty.

Following the failure of the countryside of Berlin, Bavaria withdraws conflict.

External bonds

Dennewitz 1813: Ney vs Bulow

Napoleonean epopee

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