✦ History

Part of German campaign of 1813

Battle of Möckern

April 5, 1813 · Möckern

Result Prusso-Russian victory

Prussian and Russian troops defeated a French army under Prince Eugène at Möckern, near Magdeburg, early in the German campaign of 1813.

On the map Contemporaries

First French Empire

Prussia

France
Kingdom of Prussia
Russian Empire
Eugène de Beauharnais military commander
Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
c. 50,000
Casualties
c. 2,200
Captured
c. 1,000
Guns
c. 116
Strength
20,000–24,000c. 24,000
Casualties
500–600c. 600
Guns
c. 130