Battle of Möckern

When

5 Apr 1813

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

50.95° N, 12.43° E

Description

1813 battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition

1813 battle of the War of the Sixth Coalition

The Battle of Möckern was a series of heavy clashes between allied Prusso-Russian troops under Russian commander Peter Wittgenstein and Napoleonic French forces under Eugène de Beauharnais south of Möckern. It occurred on 5 April 1813. It ended in a French defeat and formed the successful prelude to the "Liberation War" against Napoleon.

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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Im Gefecht bei Möckern erringen die alliierten Truppen unter General Ludwig Adolf Peter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein einen ersten größeren Sieg über die zahlenmäßig…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page