La Bataille d' Heilsberg 1807

Real Story Is Hard To Determine

Heilsberg 1807: The Game As An Accurate History

We had a brief discussion with one of our colleagues about whether this or that division had made an appearance in the Battle of Heilsberg. He had argued it had not, while we had consulted a reputable volume which was able to pinpoint extensive officer casualties which strongly suggested the division was at Heilsberg. The truth is that Heilsberg was perhaps one of the more difficult battles to research, because there was such a wide range of stories presented by the literature. Read a half-dozen histories and you will have six different versions on what happened.

One reason might have been that Heilsberg appears to be a relatively obscure battle, despite the 35,000 to 45,000 casualties. The battle was just four days prior to one of the

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