✦ History

Part of Napoleonic Wars

Battle of the Katzbach

August 26, 1813 · Battle of the Katzbach

Result Russo-Prussian victory

Blücher's Army of Silesia routed Macdonald's army in a rainstorm on the Katzbach.

On the map Contemporaries

French Empire and allies

Coalition

France
Kingdom of Prussia
Russian Empire
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald military commander Jacques Lauriston military commander Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta military commander
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher military commander Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken military commander Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
80,000–95,000

Units

Macdonald's Army of the Bober (1813)

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