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The Battle of Dresden (26–27 August 1813) was a major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle took place around the city of Dresden in modern-day Germany . With the recent addition of Austria , the Sixth Coalition felt emboldened in their quest to expel the French from Central Europe .
The destruction of Dresden allowed Hildebrand Gurlitt, a major Nazi museum director and art dealer, to hide a large collection of artwork worth tens of millions of dollars that had been stolen during the Nazi era, as he claimed it had been destroyed along with his house which was located in Dresden.
Actually Dresden was a mass of munitions works, an intact government centre, and a key transportation point to the East. It is now none of these things. [121] The phrase "worth the bones of one British grenadier" echoed Otto von Bismarck's: "The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier". [120]
The Dresden Elbe Valley is a cultural landscape and former World Heritage Site stretching along the Elbe river in Dresden, the state capital of Saxony, Germany.The valley, extending for some 20 kilometres (12 mi) and passing through the Dresden Basin, is one of two major cultural landscapes built up over the centuries along the Central European river Elbe, along with the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden ...
Their factories attract many suppliers of material and cleanroom technology enterprises to Dresden. The pharmaceutical sector came up at the end of the 19th century. GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals Dresden (former Sächsisches Serumwerk Dresden), is a world leader in vaccine production. Another traditional pharmacy producer is the Arzneimittelwerke ...
The Destruction of Dresden is a 1963 book by British author and Holocaust denier David Irving, in which he describes the February 1945 Allied bombing of Dresden in World War II. The book became an international best-seller during the 1960s debate about the morality of the World War II area bombing of the civilian population of Nazi Germany ...
"The mystery has finally been solved," Congo's health ministry says, after an unidentified disease outbreak started killing mainly women and children in a remote region.
1875 – Dresden Museum of Ethnology founded. 1876 – Fürstenzug created. 1878 – Opera house rebuilt. 1889 Albertinum built. [3] Dresden Botanical Garden created. 1891 – Dresden City Museum founded. 1893 – Blue Wonder bridge constructed. 1895 – Dresden Funicular Railway begins operating. 1897 – Dresden Central Station built. 1898