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#battleofthenations #napoleon #leipzig 1813. The gates are still manned. The coalition forces did not await such a fast retreat of the French lines. No axe or gun is with the first units, who reach the wall. They shall take the gates, but can only press themselves 1/6 
against the city walls. Rifle and musket fire from all directions. Many detachments cannot move. The defenders beat holes in the wall and use them as loop holes. At the Grimma’s gate the Königsberg Landwehr battalion from Bülows Corps breaks the thin wall and storms the 2/6
barricades behind the gate. The French units retreat, draw back and go in fire formation. They fire on the gap. The Prussians step over comrades’ dead bodies. The French cannot hold and flee through the small lanes. Before the Landwehr advances, the order comes: 3/6
#battleofthenations #OTD #napoleon #leipzig 1813. The Germans in French uniforms from the Rhine and Mayence (Mainz) are in the heavy fights to hold Göhren in the south. Murat arrives. “Mes enfant, il ne faut pas quitter ce village là, autrement nous sommes perdu.” They 1/4
have to hold to secure the retreat. Despite the brave defence they are overrun. All the blood from the days before was for nothing. From Liebertklolkwitz and from the 17th the wounded were placed in nearly all houses there. When they leave the town, the homes are all in 2/4
flames. The comrades are left behind and die in the fire. MacDonald’s headquarter falls. J.J. Röhrig from the Rhine comes across a house. It is full of cuirassiers. The limbs are shot off or cut off by sword strikes. “They took off the leg of an officer. He sat on a bench, 3/4
#battleofthenations #OTD #napoleon #leipzig 1813. The army of the north is here. They increase the push. Napoleon resits at the tobacco mill. On all fronts the carnage goes on. 1 000 men die per hour. The northern flank withers. In south Probstheida is in flames.
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Landwehr is pushing in and are thrown out again. The guns which were conquered minutes before are lost again. Without shelter, the returned French artillery squads fire one canister shot after another and rip the bodies of the Landwehr. They are wiped out. The church 2/5
and the big farmhouse, in which the French wounded found a cosy an safe place, are ablaze. In some quiet seconds the soldiers hear the dying cries. The noise of the battle is merciful for the fighters. The wounded cannot get out. They escaped the guns but died in the flames.3/5
⚔️ #TalDiaComoHoy en 1813, se libraba al sureste de Leipzig la mayor batalla de caballería de las Guerras Napoleónicas, el épico prólogo de la Batalla de las Naciones: #Liebertwolkwitz. Nos lo narra Javier Gómez Valero, coeditor de Desperta Ferro en este pedazo hilo⬇️
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Murat, rey de Nápoles y cuñado de Napoleón, tenía órdenes de mantener a raya al Ejército de Bohemia. Para ello se replegó hacia una favorable posición que permitía a la artillería francesa dominar el campo de batalla y además ocultar al enemigo el grueso de sus tropas.
Esto y lo embarrado del terreno debido a las recientes lluvias debería haber bastado para frenar el avance del precavido comandante aliado, el austriaco príncipe Schwarzenberg, pero el general Wittgenstein, se precipitó en persecución esperando encontrar una simple retaguardia.
