Siege of Kolberg (1807)
The Siege of Kolberg (now the Polish city of Kołobrzeg) took place from March to 2 July 1807 during the War of the Fourth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars. An army of the First French Empire and several foreign auxiliaries (including Polish insurgents) of France besieged the Prussian fortified town of Kolberg, the only remaining Prussian-held fortress in the Prussian province of Pomerania. The siege was not successful and was lifted upon the announcement of the peace of Tilsit.
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Siege of Kolberg (1807)
The Siege of Kolberg (now the Polish city of Kołobrzeg) took place from March to 2 July 1807 during the War of the Fourth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars. An army of the First French Empire and several foreign auxiliaries (including Polish insurgents) of France besieged the Prussian fortified town of Kolberg, the only remaining Prussian-held fortress in the Prussian province of Pomerania. The siege was not successful and was lifted upon the announcement of the peace of Tilsit.
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Die erfolgreiche Verteidigung ...... ns 20. Jahrhundert fortwirkte.
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L'assedio di Kolberg del 1807, ...... tenza all'invasione straniera.
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Oblężenie Kołobrzegu (niem. Be ...... trwające do 2 lipca 1807 roku.
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The Siege of Kolberg (now the ...... troops after becoming Polish.
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102 officers and 5,000 men dead and wounded or died of sickness
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::Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
:French Empire auxiliaries:
:Kingdom of Holland
:Polish insurgents of the Greater Poland Uprising
:Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
:Saxe-Hildburghausen
:Saxe-Meiningen
:Saxe-Weimar
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1807-07-02
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Siege lifted by peace treaty
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14,000 men
46 guns on Swedish frigate
6,000 men (fortress)
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~230 guns (fortress)
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Former battle memorial with statues of Nettelbeck and Gneisenau in Kolberg
Kingdom of Prussia, 1806
Prussian retreat, 1806
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Description
Emergency issue currency for the Siege of Kolberg - 2 groschen
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From left to right: Schill, Nettelbeck and Gneisenau; Lucadou not pictured.
From left to right: Victor-Perrin, Teulié, Loison, and Mortier.
Left: Bagienna/Morast/Schill redoubt; right: Maikuhle
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Battle of Kolberg
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Die erfolgreiche Verteidigung ...... ns 20. Jahrhundert fortwirkte.
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L'assedio di Kolberg del 1807, ...... tenza all'invasione straniera.
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Oblężenie Kołobrzegu (niem. Be ...... trwające do 2 lipca 1807 roku.
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The Siege of Kolberg (now the ...... cement of the peace of Tilsit.
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Assedio di Kolberg (1807)
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Belagerung Kolbergs 1807
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Oblężenie Kołobrzegu
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Siege of Kolberg (1807)
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