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Danzig capitulated on 24 May 1807. Napoleon then ordered the siege of the nearby Weichselmünde fort, but Kamensky had fled with his troops, and the garrison capitulated shortly afterwards. The battle cost the French 6,000 killed and wounded, [3] while the Prussians lost 3,000 killed, wounded and sick, and the Russians 1,500. [4]
21 March, Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold the last pitched battle of the First Civil War is a victory for the New Model Army 13 April, Siege of Exeter ended with the surrender of Royalist garrison. 5 May, Charles surrendered to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire
Battle of Oliva 1627: naval battle in the vicinity of Oliwa (currently part of Gdańsk) Siege of Danzig (1655–1660): Unsuccessful siege by Swedish forces in the Deluge; Siege of Danzig (1734): Russians capture the city during the War of the Polish Succession; Siege of Danzig (1807): French capture the city from Prussians during the War of the ...
Uruguayan Civil War: Battle of Arroyo Grande: 6 Dec: Blancoist victory Argentine Civil War: Battle of Costa Brava: Battle between Argentina and the Uruguayan colorados: First Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Jellalabad: 12 Nov 1841 – 13 April 1842: Brits capture Jalalabad: 1843: French colonization of Africa: Battle of the Smala: 16 May
The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England [b] from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the struggle consisted of the First English Civil War and the Second English Civil War.
In the Battle of Guttstadt-Deppen on 5 and 6 June 1807, troops of the Russian Empire led by General Levin August, Count von Bennigsen attacked the First French Empire corps of Marshal Michel Ney. The Russians pressed back their opponents in such a way that saw Ney fight a brilliant rearguard action with his heavily outnumbered forces.
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During the resulting Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466), the fleet of Danzig fought on the side of Poland in several battles, scoring important victories in the Battle of Bornholm (1457) and the Battle of Vistula Lagoon (1463). The war ended in 1466 with the Order's defeat.