La Bataille de Berlin 1813

Oudinot at Wagram being stitched up by the surgeon Capioment (Painting by Pils)

brilliance---both strategic and tactical. At Berezina, much of the French strategic success should be credited to the Duc de Reggio who found a way to get the French army across the swollen, icy-cold river and make Napoleon’s escape from Russia possible. He also fought well at Leipzig, just one month away from the failure at Dennewitz, when his corps of 30,000 stopped the Allies from storming the city of Leipzig and cutting off the French retreat.

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