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The siege of Dresden was a siege during the German campaign of 1813 of the War of the Sixth Coalition.

Background

After the Battle of Dresden, Napoleon had ordered Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr, commanding XIV Corps, to garrison Dresden.

Siege

After the French defeat at the Battle of Leipzig the garrison of Dresden was cut off and eventually besieged by the Russian Corps commanded by Alexander Ostermann-Tolstoy which was joined on the 26th October by the Austrian IV Corps commanded by Johann von Klenau .

Surrender

Saint-Cyr surrendered to Klenau on the 11th November 1813. Alongside Saint-Cyr; 11 Divisional Generals, 19 Brigade Generals, 1,759 officers and 33,744 men were captured as well as 94 guns.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

britannica (2021). "Battle of Dresden". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
Rickard, J. (2017). "Siege of Dresden (10 October-11 November 1813)". Archived from the original on 2021-06-20.
Nafziger, George F. (1996). Napoleon at Leipzig The Battle of Nations. Warwick, England: Helion. ISBN 978-1-912390-11-3.

External links

Media related to Siege of Dresden (1813) at Wikimedia Commons

[FOOTNOTEbritannica2021-1] ritannica 2021.

[FOOTNOTERickard2017-2] Rickard 2017.

[FOOTNOTENafziger1996-3] Nafziger 1996.

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