Battle of Altenburg

Battle of Altenburg
Part of The German campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition
Battle of Altenburg engraved by Ant. Tessaro
Date 28 September 1813 Location Altenburg, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg Result Coalition victory
Belligerents
Prussia Russia Austria	French Empire
Commanders and leaders
General Thielmann	General Lefebvre-Desnouettes
Casualties and losses
	1,000 taken prisoner

At Battle of Altenburg (28 September 1813) a combined Sixth Coalition cavalry force of Germans, Austrians and Russian Cossacks under the command on General Johann Thielmann defeated a French detachment under the command of General Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes at Altenburg, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and took over 1,000 prisoners. The Austrian contingent by Emmanuel Mensdorff and the Russian of Cossacks was commanded by Matvei Platov.

The battle was the culmination of a raid in which Thielmann cavalry successfully attacked Napoleon's lines of communications along the roads between Erfurt and Leipzig in the Saale valley.

References

• Clarke, Hewson (1815), "Twelfth Bulletin", An Impartial History of the Naval, Military and Political Events in Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Entrance of the Allies Into Paris, and the Conclusion of a General Peace [...], Brightly & Childs, pp. 631–632 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
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• UMKP staff (1813), The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, J. Hinton, p. 330