Pirna

When the king took the field again in 1756, Moritz was in command of one of the columns which hemmed in the Saxon army in the lines of Pirna, and he received the surrender of Rutowski's force after the failure of the Austrian attempts at relief.

The Old Dessauer Der Alte Fritz 2008

There was some truth in this report, for the Austrian general had indeed recrossed the Elbe at the head of 60,000 men heading northward, while his subordinate Barclay de Tolly marched toward Pirna en route for Dresden.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

The reason for this scanty Allied reinforcement was largely bound up with events at Pirna during the 26th.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

The reason for this scanty Allied reinforcement was largely bound up with events at Pirna during the 26th.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

With almost all his forces drawn up to the south of Dresden, Schwarzenberg was exposing his communications to a sudden blow through Königstein and Pirna.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

With almost all his forces drawn up to the south of Dresden, Schwarzenberg was exposing his communications to a sudden blow through Königstein and Pirna.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

There was some truth in this report, for the Austrian general had indeed recrossed the Elbe at the head of 60,000 men heading northward, while his subordinate Barclay de Tolly marched toward Pirna en route for Dresden.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

Alternatively, had Napoleon left only two corps with Vandamme at Pirna to carry out the envelopment on the 26th, this force would almost certainly have proved strong enough to destroy the Army of Bohemia in conjunction with the pinning effect exerted by the reinforced Dresden garrison.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

Alternatively, had Napoleon left only two corps with Vandamme at Pirna to carry out the envelopment on the 26th, this force would almost certainly have proved strong enough to destroy the Army of Bohemia in conjunction with the pinning effect exerted by the reinforced Dresden garrison.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

Frenchman, an Austrian, two natives of Lübeck, and myself; silversmiths and jewellers together; all of us duly _viséd_ by our several ambassadors through Saxon Switzerland, by way of Pirna, on to Peterswald.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie