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7 unusual facts about Battle of Leipzig


Amlishagen Castle

The castle was finally bought by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher the Prussian Generalfeldmarschall who led his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the Duke of Wellington.

Battle of Leipzig

Napoleon was forced from the throne of France and exiled to the island of Elba, and the First French Empire capitulated for the first time.

Napoleon was forced to abdicate and was exiled to Elba in May 1814.

Battle of the Nations

The Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of the Nations because a large number of nations took part in it

Filmzauber

A farce, with a number of subplots, centring on the efforts by the idolized silent film producer-actor Adalbert Musenfett to cast himself as Napoleon in a drama set during the Battle of Leipzig.

Hoenzadriel

After the Battle of Leipzig, the Netherlands (including Hoenzadriel) became a free sovereign country and the army forces of Napoleon were withdrawn from Hoenzadriel.

United Kingdom of the Netherlands

The first two scenarios came from "Memorandum of Holland" made in 1813 after the Battle of Leipzig.


4th Regiment of Line Infantry

Despite the fact that in 1812 Napoleon lost control over Poland, the regiment remained loyal to the emperor and fought in, among others, the bloody Battle of Leipzig and the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube, the penultimate battle of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Ignacy Prądzyński

For his bravery in the latter campaign he was awarded with the Golden Cross of the Virtuti Militari and the French Legion of Honour for his role in the Battle of Leipzig and the Battle of Waterloo.

Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki

At the Battle of Leipzig he greatly distinguished himself and at Arcis-sur-Aube, in 1814, saved Napoleon from the sudden onslaught of the enemy by sheltering him in the midst of his battalion.

Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron

In 1813, Langeron was put in charge of the blockade of Thorn, and later that year he commanded a corps at Koenigswarte, Bautzen, Siebeneichen, Lowenberg, Katzbach, and Leipzig.

Province of Saxony

territory gained from the Kingdom of Saxony after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813: the towns and surrounding territories of Wittenberg, Merseburg, Naumburg, Mansfeld, Querfurt, and Henneberg;

Royal Suédois

In December 1813, the regiment was once again raised by a French émigré in Germany, and it fought in the Swedish Army during the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 and during the campaign in Norway in 1814.

Victor de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg

At Wachau, during the Battle of Leipzig, his corps along with François Étienne de Kellermann's IV Cavalry Corps and the dragoons of the Guard charged the center of Duke of Württemberg.

Year 1809

But after the Battle of Leipzig he went his own way, determined at all hazards to cripple Denmark and to secure Norway, defeating the Danes at Bornhöved in December.


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Ödön Beöthy

At the age of sixteen he served in the war against Napoleon, and was present at the great battle of Leipzig.