Battle_of_La_Suffel

Battle of La Suffel

Battle of La Suffel

Battle between French and Austrian forces in 1815

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.

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During the Hundred Days, General Jean Rapp rallied to Napoleon Bonaparte and was given command of the V Corps (also known as the Army of the Rhine), consisting of about 20,000 men. He was ordered to observe the border near Strasbourg,[3] and to defend the Vosges. Ten days after Waterloo (in which his corps took no part), he met the III Corps of the Austrian Upper Rhine Army under the command of the Crown Prince of Württemberg near Strasbourg and defeated them at the Battle of La Suffel.[1]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Siborne 1848, p. 771-772.
  2. [2]
    Moore 1999.
  3. [3]
    Becke 1911, p. 271.

References

  • Becke, Archibald Frank (1911). "Waterloo Campaign, 1815" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 371–381.
  • Moore, Richard (1999). "Jean Rapp". napoleonguide.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  • Siborne, William (1848). The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 (4 ed.). Turnbull and Spears. pp. 771-772.

Further reading

Preceded by
Battle of Rocheserviere		 Napoleonic Wars
Battle of La Suffel		 Succeeded by
Battle of Rocquencourt
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