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2 unusual facts about Battle of Dresden


Battle of Dresden

And on 26 August, Prussian Marshal Blücher defeated Marshal MacDonald at the Katzbach.

Interestingly Napoleon's old rival Jean Victor Marie Moreau who had only recently returned from his banishment from the United States was talking to the Tsar (who wished to see Napoleon defeated) and was mortally wounded in the battle and died later on 2 September in Louny.


Joseph, Baron von Mesko de Felsö-Kubiny

At the Battle of Dresden, on 26 August, his division was cut off on the left wing when the river Weißeritz flooded.


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