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  2. Battle of Dresden - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Bombing of Dresden - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 December 2024. Aerial bombing attacks in 1945 You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (June 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations ...

  4. Siege of Dresden (1813) - Wikipedia

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    After the French defeat at the Battle of Leipzig the garrison of Dresden was cut off and eventually besieged by the Russian Corps commanded by Alexander Ostermann-Tolstoy which was joined on 26 October by the Austrian IV Corps commanded by Johann von Klenau.

  5. XIV Corps (Grande Armée) - Wikipedia

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    Saint-Cyr's corps played a major role in Emperor Napoleon I's victory at the Battle of Dresden in late August. Since it was assigned to garrison Dresden, the XIV Corps missed the Battle of Leipzig in October. Isolated after Napoleon's decisive defeat at Leipzig, the unit endured the Siege of Dresden which ended in November with a French surrender.

  6. Siege of Dresden - Wikipedia

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    Dresden was the third major siege Frederick had been forced to abandon following Prague (1757) and Olomouc (1758). [4] Frederick's forces crossed into Silesia and fought the Battle of Liegnitz on 15 August.

  7. The Destruction of Dresden - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. War of the Sixth Coalition - Wikipedia

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    The War of the Sixth Coalition saw battles at Lützen, Bautzen, and Dresden. The even larger Battle of Leipzig (also known as the Battle of Nations) was the largest battle in European history before World War I. Ultimately, Napoleon's earlier setbacks in Spain, Portugal and Russia proved to be the seeds of his undoing.

  9. Combat of Goldberg - Wikipedia

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    The Combat of Goldberg was a battle taking place during the Napoleonic Wars, fought in the War of the Sixth Coalition on August 23, 1813. It was a minor victory for French military leader Étienne Macdonald's Army of the Bobr.