Lützen & Bautzen 1813
Subtitle: The Turning Point (Campaign)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: April 25, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781855329942
Subjects: Battles & campaigns; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Military tactics; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; History; History - Military / War; Germany; Military - General; History / Military / General
First sentence: By the spring of 1813, Europe had been at war more or less continuously for two decades.
Description: Following the disastrous Russian campaign of 1812 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815), Napoleon found himself facing a new coalition of his old enemies. With incredible speed he raised an army of 200,000 men and marched to join the remnants of the old Grande Armee in Germany. However, he no longer faced the brittle enemies of 1805 and 1806 and at Lützen on 2 May the inexperience of his new army began to show. Faulty reconnaissance by raw cavalry allowed Ney's Corps to be surprised by Wittgenstein's Russians. This book describes the last realistic chance Napoleon had to regain his empire by defeating the allies in Germany before Austria stirred and the tide turned even more against him.