The Coalition armies were closing in on Napoleon. Bennigsen’s Russian army in Bohemia moved north into Saxony. Facing the Russians were two French Corps occupying Dresden (when perhaps they would have been of far more use in Napoleon’s main army). …
Marshal Ney ordered Bertrand’s depleted IV Corps to Wartenburg, to prevent the Allied army from crossing the Elbe River. This corps had been in the thick of the fighting at Dennewitz and suffered when withdrawal turned into rout. Only one …