Date 28 September 1813 Location Altenberg, Germany | Result Coalition victory | |
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Similar Battle of Haynau, German Campaign of 1813, Battle of Saint‑Dizier, First Battle of Bar‑sur‑Aube, Battle of Hoogstraten | ||
At Battle of Altenberg (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 Altenberg (near Pirna), 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.
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