dresden (august 26, 1813)
INTRODUCTION
The Allied Sovereigns attack the Saxon capital but Napoleon runs to
sucoour it.
HOUSE RULES
The order of battle (OOB) is based on the given by Lamont Anderson
(Colorado Springs Games Association):
http://csga.webng.com/CSGANapoleon_files/Dresden1stDaySC.htm
with small corrections according to the book of George Nafziger 'NAPOLEON
AT DRESDEN: THE BATTLES OF AUGUST 1813' (Chicago Emperor's Press 1994).
Due to space limitations of the game-table the Manconi field-works have
benn not used.
The second edition of Napoleon's Battles edited by Five Forks has been
used with some modifications:
1) The cavalry scale is also 1/120
2) Units of infantry with less than four elements were allowed
to display the French light infantry regiments and the units of the
French III Corps (Davout)
3) All the optional rules have been used if necessary
TABLE-TOP ADAPTATION
| Dresden pdf file |
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| The battlefield | |||||||||
| From left to right (1) Dresden at the background up the valley of the Weiseritz stream; (2) Plauen at left, Dresden in the background with the Grossen Gartens; (3) The Weiretz stream joind the Elbe at Friedrichstadt suburb; (4) The Grossen Gartens with the Elbe in the foreground. | |||||||||
| French deployment | |||||||||
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| From left to right (1) French deployment; (2) The cavalry and the infantry deployed in Friedrichstadt suburb ; (3) Dresden and the Grossen garten; (4) Close view of a redoubt. | |||||||||
| Allied deployment | |||||||||
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| From left to right (1) The von Keist's Prussians; (2) The Gyulai's Austrians; (3) The Russian-Prussian under Wittgenstein. | |||||||||
THE BATTLE IN PICTURES
| THE FIGHT AT THE GROSSEN GARTENS | |||||||||||
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| From left to right (1) At 7.30 h the Prussian enter the Grossen Gartens routing a French brigade; (2) and (3) In the following turn, a combined Prussian attack is initially rejected by the French light infantry but (4) finally the French must evacuate the park. | |||||||||||
| AND IN THE REDOUBT No. 1 | |||||||||||
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| From left to right (1) 8.00 h the Dresden garrison routs two Russian units at the redoubt No. 1 and (2) the French Light infantry in line also routs Russian attacking infantry; at 9.30 h (3) and (4) the French make a sortie and further reject the Russian infantry. The attack is stopped | |||||||||||
| THE AUSTRIANS ATTACK FRIEDRICHSTADT | |||||||||||
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| From left to right (1) At 9.30 h the Croats rout the French infantry but are dispersed (too much losses from fire); (2) and (3) The other brigades enter in combat but (4) finally the Croats must withdraw disordered; (5) the French cavalry routs the Croat's artillery. The attack is stopped. | |||||||||||
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| From left to right (1), (2) and (3) 10.00 h. The Austrians expulse the French cavalry and contact the suburb. (4) the Austrians repel the French infantry in the suburb. | |||||||||||
| ... AND ARE EXPELLED | |||||||||||
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| From left to right: (1), (2) 10.30 h: the first Austrian brigada es espelled; (3) 11.00 h the second one enters in the suburb and after routing a French brigade (4) is finally dispersed (5). | |||||||||||
| THE POWER OF THE OLD GUARD | |||||||||||
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| 10.30 h. The Old Guard infantry makes an 'all-out' attack: from left to right (1) and (2) the Austrian are rejected with 6 losses although the Old Guard does not rout them; )3) Austrian kuirassiers on react attack the Old Guard that forms square and repels them; (4) the other brigade destroys the Austrian infantry. | |||||||||||
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| 11.30 h from left to right (1) and (2) the Old Guard disperse the Austrian infantry in the withdrawal step, if well the Franch cavlry bounced after the combat turn. (3) After resolving the bottle-neck in the pontoons, the Jeune Guard deploys under the protection of the Old Guard. The French right flak is now sure | |||||||||||