French Guardsman vs Russian Jaeger by Laurence Spring

Author:Laurence Spring
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: French Guardsman versus Russian Jaeger: 1812–14
ISBN: 9781472806123
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Leipzig

16 October 1813

BACKGROUND TO BATTLE

In December 1812 the majority of the Young Guard regiments that had served in Russia existed on paper only, having succumbed to the various battles, such as Krasnyi, and the Russian winter. The Russian Army had also suffered badly; for example, by early January 1813 the five regiments that formed the 13th Infantry Division – including the 13th and 14th Jaeger Regiments – together numbered only 1,091 (Beskrovnogo 1956: V.22). Kutuzov argued that the Russian Army should wait before it advanced into Germany, but Tsar Alexander was impatient; he did not want Napoleon to be able to recoup his losses, so he ordered the Russian Army to continue its pursuit of the Grande Armée. It would be Alexander’s enthusiasm in the forthcoming campaigns that would eventually lead to Napoleon’s defeat in 1814.

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