✦ History

Part of Napoleonic Wars, Hundred Days

Battle of Ligny

June 16, 1815 · Ligny

Result French victory

Napoleon's last victory. He beat Blücher's Prussian army two days before Waterloo, but the Prussians retreated in order to Wavre and joined Wellington on 18 June.

On the map Contemporaries

French Empire and allies

Coalition

France
Kingdom of Prussia
Napoleon Emperor of the French, Commanded the French army Emmanuel de Grouchy Marshal, Commanded the cavalry Jean-de-Dieu Soult military commander Dominique Vandamme military commander Étienne Maurice Gérard military commander
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher Commander of the Prussian army, Wounded when his horse fell; kept the army together August Neidhardt von Gneisenau military commander Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten military commander Johann von Thielmann military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
67,567c. 71,000
Casualties
12,000c. 12,000
Guns
236c. 242
Strength
82,895c. 84,000
Casualties
18,000c. 24,000
Missing
c. 8,000
Guns
216c. 224
Guns lost
21c. 21

Units

Army of the North (1792–1795) Armée du Nord (1815) Grouchy's right wing (1815)
Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine Strength 84,000 Prussian III Corps (Thielmann, 1815)

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