La Bataille de Berlin 1813

The Battle of Dennewitz

Where the Battles for Gross Beeren were a series of uncoordinated French columns colliding independently with inspired Prussian troops in wooded and watery terrain; the Battle of Dennewitz showed a rigid French army plodding along a single road seeking to connect with Napoleon, but confused by storms of dust clouds coming off of dry plains and the French lacking the ability to improvise to the conditions as presented. Dennewitz would be just two weeks removed from Gross Beeren; but much would change before the next battle. Napoleon demoted the defeated Marshal Nicolas Oudinot and replaced him with the always pugnacious Marshal Michael Ney. Ney had mainly failed in his previous assignments of independent army command at Lutzen and Bautzen in May of 1813. But Napoleon had his best independent commander, Marshal Davout, tied down keeping the important Hanseatic city of Hamburg in French hands; and other independent commanders tied down in Spain and Italy.

Michael Ney Who Was Expecting Napoleon At Dennewitz

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