Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Kulm

August 30, 1813 - After being defeated at the Battle of Dresden, the forces of the Sixth Coalition win a large rearguard action at the Battle of Kulm (right). Having defeated the Coalition at Dresden, Napoleon dispatched the corps of General Dominique Vandamme to pursue the retreating enemy. Near Kulm, the larger force of Russian Lt. General Count Alexander Ostermann-Tolstoy turned on Vandamme, and coupled with the timely arrival of a Prussian force, was able to capture the French general and nearly half his men.

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