Battle of La Suffel

Battle of La Suffel

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of La Suffel
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caption=
partof=the Napoleonic Wars
date=28 June 1815
place=Souffelweyersheim and Hoenheim, France
result=French victory
combatant1=
combatant2=flagicon|Austria|empire III Corps of the Austrian Upper Rhine Army (Seventh Coalition)
commander1=Jean Rapp
commander2=Crown Prince of WürtembergWilliam Siborne. The Waterloo Campaign, 1815, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RxQazrQnHSkC&pg=PA772&lpg=PA772&source=web&ots=MEoSKaiPcn&sig=Z2u-_Q7H4LbLSSrEp-NHKz3Xos4&hl=en pp 771-772] ]
strength1=About 20,000Moore, Richard. " [http://www.napoleonguide.com/soldiers_rapp.htm Jean Rapp] ", [http://www.napoleonguide.com/ Napoleonic Guide Napoleonic Guide] ]
strength2=About 40,000
casualties1=~3,000
casualties2=75 officers and 2,050 men|The Battle of La Suffel was a French victory over Austrian forces of the Seventh Coalition and the last French pitched battle victory in the Napoleonic Wars. It was fought on 28 June 1815 at Souffelweyersheim and Hoenheim, near Strasbourg.

During the Waterloo Campaign, General Jean Rapp rallied to Napoleon Bonaparte and was given command of the V Corps (also know as the Army of the Rhine), consisting of about 20,000 men. He was ordered to observe the border near Strasbourg,Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Waterloo Campaign] and to defend the Vosges. Ten days after Battle of Waterloo (in which his corps took no part), he met the III Corps of the the Austrian Upper Rhine Army under the command of Crown Prince of Würtemberg near Strasbourg and defeated them at the Battle of La Suffel.

References

Further reading

* Chandler David. "Waterloo : The Hundred Days (Battles and Histories)", Osprey Publishing (1997) ISBN 1855327163. p. 180


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