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Battle of La Suffel
Part of the Hundred Days
Date 28 June 1815 Location Souffelweyersheim and Hoenheim, France48°38′08″N 7°44′30″E / 48.6356°N 7.7417°E / 48.6356; 7.7417 Result French victory
Belligerents
French Empire	Seventh Coalition: Austrian Empire Württemberg
Commanders and leaders
Jean Rapp Henri Rottembourg	Crown Prince of Württemberg
Units involved
V Corps	III Corps of the Upper Rhine Army
Strength
About 20,000	About 40,000
Casualties and losses
~3,000	~75 officers and 5,050 men

The Battle of La Suffel was a French victory over Austrian forces of the Seventh Coalition and the last French pitched battle victory in the Napoleonic Wars. It was fought on 28 June 1815 at Souffelweyersheim and Hoenheim, near Strasbourg.

During the Hundred Days, General Jean Rapp rallied to Napoleon Bonaparte and was given command of the V Corps (also known as the Army of the Rhine), consisting of about 20,000 men. He was ordered to observe the border near Strasbourg, and to defend the Vosges. Ten days after Waterloo (in which his corps took no part), he met the III Corps of the Austrian Upper Rhine Army under the command of the Crown Prince of Württemberg near Strasbourg and defeated them at the Battle of La Suffel.

Notes

1. ^ Siborne 1848, p. 771-772.
2. Moore 1999.
3. Becke 1911, p. 271.

References

• Becke, Archibald Frank (1911). "Waterloo Campaign, 1815" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 371–381.
• Moore, Richard (1999). "Jean Rapp". napoleonguide.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
• Siborne, William (1848). The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 (4 ed.). Turnbull and Spears. pp. 771-772.

Further reading

• Chandler, David (1979). Waterloo: The Hundred Days (Battles and Histories). Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-85532-716-3.
• Rapp, Jean (1823). Memoirs of General Count Rapp, first aide-de-camp to Napoleon. H. Colburn and Co. pp. 365–370.
• Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.

External links

• Media related to Battle of La Suffel at Wikimedia Commons

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