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A standard of the Prussian Army used before 1807. The Royal Prussian Army was the principal armed force of the Kingdom of Prussia during its participation in the Napoleonic Wars. Frederick the Great's successor, his nephew Frederick William II (1786–1797), relaxed conditions in Prussia and had little interest in war.
Prussian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars (1 C, 58 P) W. William I, German Emperor (3 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Prussian Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars"
With Prussia's joining of the Sixth Coalition out of his hands, Frederick William III quickly began to mobilize the army, and the East Prussian Landwehr was duplicated in the rest of the country. In comparison to 1806, the Prussian populace, especially the middle class, was supportive of the war, and thousands of volunteers joined the army.
The unit was officially founded in February 1813 as Königlich Preußisches Freikorps von Lützow (Royal Prussian Free Corps von Lützow). Lützow, who had been an officer under the ill-fated Ferdinand von Schill, obtained permission from the Prussian Chief-of-Staff Gerhard von Scharnhorst to organize a free corps consisting of infantry, cavalry, and Tyrolean Jäger (literally, “hunters ...
An illustrated encyclopedia of uniforms of the Napoleonic wars : an expert, in-depth reference to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1792-1815. London Lanham, Md: Lorenz North American agent/distributor, National Book Network. ISBN 978-0-7548-1571-6. OCLC 60320422. Hofschröer, Peter (1984).
Prussian Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars (2 C, 66 P) Pages in category "German military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total.
The Dyle river in Wavre (early 20th century). After the Battle of Ligny, Zieten's Prussian I Corps and Pirch I's [a] II Corps retired to Tilly and Gentinnes. [2]On the night of 16 June, Prussian headquarters ordered the army to fall back to Wavre [2] instead of falling back along lines of communication toward Prussia; by doing so, Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher retained the ...
Map of the Waterloo Campaign. The Battle of Wavre was the final major military action of the Hundred Days campaign and the Napoleonic Wars.It was fought on 18–19 June 1815 between the Prussian rearguard, consisting of the Prussian III Corps under the command of General Johann von Thielmann (whose chief-of-staff was Carl von Clausewitz) and three corps of the French army under the command of ...