✦ History

Part of Napoleonic Wars

Battle of Kulm

August 29–30, 1813 · Battle of Kulm

Result Coalition victory

The allies retreating from Dresden surrounded and destroyed Vandamme's corps.

On the map Contemporaries

French Empire and allies

Coalition

France
Austrian Empire
Russian Empire
Kingdom of Prussia
Dominique Vandamme military commander
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly military commander Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov military commander Mikhail Miloradovich military commander Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy military commander Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
c. 37,000
Casualties
c. 17,000
Captured
c. 8,000
Guns
c. 81
Guns lost
c. 81
Strength
c. 103,000
Casualties
11,000–12,319c. 12,000
Captured
c. 1,000
Guns
c. 226

Units

Vandamme's I Corps (1813)

Also involved 4