Battle of Hagelberg | |||||||
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Part of the German campaign of the Sixth Coalition | |||||||
Prussian Landwehr at Hagelberg by Richard Knötel | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Prussia Russia |
France Saxony Westphalia | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Karl Friedrich von Hirschfeld Alexander Chernyshyov | Jean-Baptiste Girard (WIA) (POW) | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
11,310 11 guns[1] |
8,900 23 guns[2] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
1,759[1] |
6,000 8 guns[1] |
The 'Battle of Hagelberg (also: Battle of Lübnitz) took place on 27 August 1813, following the Battle of Grossbeeren and in the run-up to the Battle of Leipzig during the War of the Sixth Coalition. A Prussian force of mostly Landwehr militia, together with Russian Cossacks, destroyed a French, Saxon and Westphalian force of 8,900 men.