Posted on 04/29/2016 9:22:50 AM PDT by C19fan
;’) The title s/b FRederick the Great. ;’)
Respectfully, Prussia redeemed the defeats and collapse of 1806 (Jena-Auerstadt) in the 1813 campaign, with victories at Dresden, Kulm and Leipzig (The Battle of Nations).
Napoleon was forced to abdicate and go into exile on Elba as a result.
The reforms of Scharnhorst and von Gneisenau enabled the Prussian Army to quickly regroup and resume the advance despite early defeats in the 1815 Waterloo Campaign, arriving in good order with reserves and ammunition on Napoleon’s right flank as the Old Guard broke against Wellington’s squares in time to seal Napoleon’s fate.
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