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#OTD #warsofliberation #napoleon #leipzig #marshalblucher #thebattleofthenations  1813 All reserves are exhausted. Blücher throws one reserve after another in the fire. They cannot pass!! The grapeshots of the French artillery tear down the young men. But General Yorck, 1/7 Image
sees only one way. One unit ist still in reserve. The reserve Cavalry. Hussars and Colonel Jurgas with the Westprussian Dragoons and Graf Henckel von Donnersmark with the Lituanian. General Yorck let them line up. His staff also joins the line. Either victory or they will 2/7 Image
die with their men. The General rides along the line of his men. Looks in the eyes of those, who rode for a long time with him. He draws his sabre. „Now the time for Prussia has come!“ He draws the sword and rises it high. Hundreds of swords ar drawn and shine like stars.3/7 Image
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# OTD #warsofliberation #napoleon #leipzig #marshalblucher #thebattleofthenations 1813. The emperor is surprised. The Silesian army is there. Napoleon had hoped to crush the coalition forces in the south before other detachments arrive. But now he is getting aware, that ImageImage
the circle closes and from hour to hour he realises, that the Coalition’s generals had coordinated their forces brilliantly. Even beyond the Elster, Austrian forces threaten the French retreat line. The Sileasian army had already shown its determination. And from Blücher, Image
he awaits a thunderstorm, which will push forward. But there is still Marshal Marmont and his VIth Corps, which is prepared to fight to the last. News arrive Blücher. Bernadotte and the Army of the North won’t be there in time. Yorck’s Corps stands on the right, Langeron Image
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