Capitulation of Pasewalk The Capitulation of Pacewalk on 29 October 1806 resulted in the surrender of Oberst ( Colonel ) von Hagen ' s 4 , 200 Prussian soldiers to an inferior force of two French light cavalry brigades led by Generals of Brigade Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud and Antoine Lasalle . The Prussians were completely demoralized after a two - week - long retreat following their decisive defeat at the Battle of Jena - Auerstedt . Pasewalk is 110 kilometers north of Berlin and about 40 kilometers west of Szczecin ( Stettin ) , Poland . While retreating east toward Stettin on the Oder River , Hagen found his column trapped between Lasalle ' s brigade and Milhaud ' s brigade . Without attempting to break out , the baffled Prussian officer surrendered . The incident at Pasewalk came after a similar Prussian surrender after the Battle of Prenzlau the previous day . Within a week two fortresses would capitulate without firing a shot and a number of other Prussian columns would be hunted down one by one . Background . On 14 October 1806 , the Grande Armée of Emperor Napoleon I of France decisively defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Jena - Auerstadt . At Jena Napoleon ' s 96 , 000 troops smashed the 53 , 000 - man army of Generals of Infantry Frederick Louis , Prince of Hohenlohe - Ingelfingen and Ernst von Rüchel , while the 26 , 000 - man III Corps of Marshal Louis - Nicolas Davout defeated Feldmarschall Charles William Ferdinand , Duke of Brunswick ' s 49 , 800 - strong army at Auerstedt . At Jena , French losses were 6 , 794 while Prussian losses were very large but impossible to calculate . The Saxons saved only 23 of their artillery pieces , while losing 59 . The Prussians lost at least 24 guns plus 12 colors . Davout estimated his losses as 7 , 000 at Auerstedt while his enemies suffered 10 , 000 killed and wounded and 3 , 000 captured . The Prussians admitted losing 57 guns from their artillery batteries , not counting regimental guns . So Davout ' s claim to have captured 115 pieces may be accurate . The Prussian army was so thoroughly shattered by its defeat that it had not recovered cohesion by the next day . Shot through both eyes , Brunswick expired at Altona on 10 November . The badly wounded Rüchel made his way to Poland where he recovered . The retreating mass of Prussians resolved itself into three columns under Prince Hohenlohe , Lieutenant General Gebhard von Blücher , and General of the Infantry Friedrich Adolf , Count von Kalckreuth . These forces marched through the Harz Mountains toward Halberstadt . Trailing behind was the 12 , 000 - man corps of Lieutenant General Karl August , Grand Duke of Saxe - Weimar - Eisenach , which missed Jena - Auerstadt . On 16 October , French cavalry under Marshal Joachim Murat secured the surrender of 12 , 000 men and 65 guns in the Capitulation of Erfurt . It was only the first of a series of craven Prussian surrenders . The following day , Marshal Jean - Baptiste Bernadotte drubbed Lieutenant General Eugene Frederick Henry , Duke of Württemberg ' s Reserve at the Battle of Halle , inflicting 5 , 000 casualties on this previously fresh body of troops for a French loss of only 800 . Long retreat . The columns of Hohenlohe and Württemberg rendezvoused at Magdeburg on 20 October . Kalckreuth crossed the Elbe River at Tangermünde and joined his corps to Hohenlohe ' s soon afterward . He then left for an assignment in Poland . On the 20th , Soult and Murat were before Magdeburg . Murat demanded its surrender , which Hohenlohe refused . That day , Davout seized a bridgehead over the Elbe at Wittenberg and Lannes seized a second crossing at Dessau . Having received orders from King Frederick William III of Prussia to march to the Oder River , Hohenlohe ' s army left Magdeburg on 21 October and reached Burg bei Magdeburg that night . He left 9 , 000 men to reinforce the garrison , so that , together with stragglers , there were 25 , 000 troops in the city . Hohenlohe reached Genthin at night on 22 October and Rathenow on the evening of the 23rd . To better feed his troops , he divided his command up into multiple columns . Leaving Marshal Michel Ney ' s VI Corps to begin the Siege of Magdeburg , Napoleon ordered his right wing to march east for Berlin . The French right wing consisted of Davout ' s corps , Marshal Jean Lannes ' V Corps , Marshal Pierre Augereau ' s VII Corps , and four of Murat ' s cavalry units . These were the 1st Cuirassier Division led by General of Division Etienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty , the 2nd Cuirassier Division under General of Division Jean - Joseph Ange d ' Hautpoul , the 2nd Dragoon Division commanded by General of Division Emmanuel Grouchy , and the 3rd Dragoon Division under General of Division Marc Antoine de Beaumont . The left wing was made up of Bernadotte ' s corps , Marshal Nicolas Soult ' s IV Corps , and General of Division Louis Michel Antoine Sahuc ' s 4th Dragoon Division . Guarding the line of communications was General of Division Louis Klein ' s 1st Dragoon Division . Blücher crossed the Elbe at Sandau on 24 October , while Saxe - Weimar got across there two days later . On the 26th , Oberst Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg held off Soult ' s advance guard at Altenzaun before safely crossing to the east bank . At this time Lieutenant General Johann Friedrich Winning relieved Saxe - Weimar in command . Hohenlohe marched to Neustadt an der Dosse on the 24th . His goal was the fortress of Szczecin ( Stettin ) on the Oder . To protect his right flank , he ordered General - Major Christian Ludwig Schimmelpfennig to move through Fehrbellin , between Neustadt and Oranienburg . Blücher took over the leadership of Hohenlohe ' s rear guard . On 25 October Davout ' s corps marched through Berlin while one of Lannes ' divisions captured the fortress of Spandau with 920 men and 71 cannons . Hohenlohe ' s main body arrived near Neuruppin that evening , with Blücher ' s rear guard division still at Neustadt . General von Schwerin ' s cavalry and Oberst von Hagen ' s infantry brigade bivouacked at Wittstock . General - Major Karl Anton von Bila ' s light brigade reached Kyritz north of Neustadt . Desiring to cut off the forces under Hohenlohe , Napoleon ordered Murat and Lannes to move north from Berlin . Immediately available at Oranienburg were the light cavalry brigades of Generals of Brigade Antoine Lasalle and Edouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud , plus Grouchy ' s dragoons . On 26 October , Lasalle caught up with Schimmelpfennig at Zehdenick . Initially , the Prussians held their own , but when Grouchy ' s division charged into the fray , Schimmelpfennig ' s force scattered . The survivors fled to Stettin with Lasalle , Grouchy , and Beaumont in pursuit . The results of this clash compelled Hohenlohe to shift farther northeast from Gransee to Lychen . The next morning he waited in vain for Blücher and Bila to catch up before continuing toward the east . On 27 October , Milhaud ' s brigade reached Boitzenburg before Hohenlohe ' s advance guard . After a three hour combat , the Prussians drove Milhaud ' s troopers off , but not before the French despoiled supplies collected for their hungry opponents at the " Schloss " Boitzenburg . Hearing the sounds of battle , Murat marched north with Grouchy ' s dragoons . At Wichmannsdorf , three French dragoon regiments got into a brawl with the " Gensdarmes " Cuirassier Regiment # 10 . Murat wiped out the Prussian unit but Hohenlohe managed to slip past him toward Prenzlau . At 4 : 00 AM on 28 October , Hohenlohe ' s exhausted Prussians stumbled into Schönermark - Nordwestuckermark eight kilometers west of Prenzlau . At a council of war it was determined to continue on into Prenzlau . At this time orders were sent to Hagen to make for Pasewalk . The Battle of Prenzlau occurred that day . Murat with Lasalle , Milhaud , Grouchy , Beaumont , and 3 , 000 of Lannes ' infantry intercepted Hohenlohe ' s column as it marched into the city . Lasalle attacked in front , followed by the two dragoon divisions . On the outskirts , one of Grouchy ' s brigades hewed a path through the Prussian column , capturing many prisoners and isolating the rear guard . Beaumont ' s dragoons drove the rear guard against the Uecker River north of the city and forced Prince Augustus of Prussia to surrender . Though Hohenlohe still had a clear road to Stettin , Murat bluffed him into surrendering 10 , 000 troops by claiming he was surrounded by 100 , 000 Frenchmen . Capitulation . Moving on Murat ' s left flank on the 28th , Milhaud reached the village of Bandelow , about halfway between Prenzlau and Pasewalk . From there , he marched toward the sound of the guns from the Battle of Prenzlau . His brigade arrived in time to witness Prince Augustus ' surrender to Beaumont . His troopers bivouacked that night in Bandelow and rode to Pasewalk the next morning . After Hohenlohe capitulated at Prenzlau , Lasalle rode northeast to Löcknitz on the Randow stream . At 4 : 00 PM , he arrived at the village , which was on the direct road between Pasewalk and Stettin . The French general deployed his cavalrymen in Löcknitz and in the hamlet of Bergholz facing northwest in the direction of Pasewalk . Appearing before the town , Milhaud sent an emissary to demand a surrender . The Prussian colonel , finding Milhaud behind him and Lasalle ahead of him , immediately capitulated with 185 officers , 4 , 043 rank and file , 2087 cavalry horses , one ammunition wagon , and eight artillery pieces . Hagen ' s force consisted of his own infantry brigade and Oberst von Podewil ' s cavalry brigade . The French captured colors ( number in parenthesis ) from the " Pirch " Infantry Regiment # 22 ( 3 ) , " Zenge " Infantry Regiment # 24 ( 3 ) , " Treuenfels " Infantry Regiment # 29 ( 4 ) , " Prince Ferdinand " Infantry Regiment # 34 ( 2 ) , " Henkel " Cuirassier Regiment # 1 ( 5 ) , " Heising " Cuirassier Regiment # 8 ( 5 ) , " Holtzendorff " Cuirassier Regiment # 9 ( 5 ) , " Leib " Carabinier Regiment # 11 ( 5 ) , and " Bünting " Cuirassier Regiment # 12 ( 5 ) . The Prussian officers were released after giving their word of honor not to fight against France for the rest of the campaign . Milhaud ' s entire force consisted of the 1st Hussar Regiment and the 13th Chasseurs a Cheval , a total of 700 troopers . Lasalle ' s brigade included the 5th and 7th Hussar Regiments with 800 cavalrymen and two cannons . Another authority placed the 1st Hussars with General of Division Anne Jean Marie René Savary at Neuruppin on the 29th , and wrote that Milhaud led the 13th Chasseurs and an unnamed dragoon regiment . Historian Digby Smith wrote that the Pasewalk incident showed the morale of the Prussian army to be extremely low at this point in the campaign . There was no fighting . Lannes wrote , " The Prussian army is in such a state of panic that the mere appearance of a Frenchman is enough to make it lay down its arms . " That night , Lasalle achieved an even more astonishing coup in the Capitulation of Stettin . Between 30 October and 3 November , the French captured Küstrin fortress , an artillery convoy , Hohenlohe ' s baggage train and guard , and Bila ' s brigade . Blücher and Winning decided to head northwest for Lübeck with their 22 , 000 troops . The Battle of Lübeck was fought on 6 November .