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Bernadotte ... [w] ho clobbered his former colleagues Oudinot (at Grossbeeren) and Ney (at Dennewitz) when he encountered them in 1813. ...
Matthew Yglesias » Kristol Complicates Napoleon Metaphors 2010
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Who clobbered his former colleagues Oudinot (at Grossbeeren) and Ney (at Dennewitz) when he encountered them in 1813. democraticcore says:
Matthew Yglesias » Kristol Complicates Napoleon Metaphors 2010
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The allies defeated the other French generals as follows: Oudinot and Reynier at Grossbeeren (Aug. 23); MacDonald at the Katzbach (Aug. 26); Vandamme at Kulm (Aug. 30); Ney at Dennewitz (Sept. 6).
1813-14 2001
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Advancing carelessly, Ney had blundered into a trap set for him by Bernadotte near Dennewitz on September 6, and after a scrappy and confused battle had been repulsed with some 10,000 casualties after inflicting only 7,000 on the Army of the North.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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News of Dennewitz had induced the Tyrol to join the Austrian cause, while the King of Bavaria had similarly come to the decision to defect; the whole of Germany—save only Saxony—was on the point of rising in revolt.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Advancing carelessly, Ney had blundered into a trap set for him by Bernadotte near Dennewitz on September 6, and after a scrappy and confused battle had been repulsed with some 10,000 casualties after inflicting only 7,000 on the Army of the North.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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News of Dennewitz had induced the Tyrol to join the Austrian cause, while the King of Bavaria had similarly come to the decision to defect; the whole of Germany—save only Saxony—was on the point of rising in revolt.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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He had not a word to say in praise of the Prussians who fought at the Katzbach, at Dennewitz, and at Waterloo.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various
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Near by are the old Cistercian abbey of Zinna, and another battlefield, Dennewitz, an important strategic point in one of the campaigns against the First Napoleon, where the victory of Bülow over
In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton
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At Bautzen, Lutzen, Dresden, he contributed powerfully to the success; but he and Oudinot received a severe check at Dennewitz from the Crown
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 Various
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