Date and place
- August 26th and 27th, 1813 at Dresden, on the Elbe river, Saxony, Germany.
Involved forces
- French army (20,000 then 135,000 men) under Marshal Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr then Emperor Napoleon the First.
- Russian-Austrian-Prussian coalition (214,000 men) under Field Marshal Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Emperor Francis I of Austria, Tzar Alexander I of Russia and King Frederick Willian III of Prussia.
Aerial panorama of the battlefield of Dresden
View of the Dresden battlefield.
Map of the battle of Dresden
Picture - "The death of Moreau, before Dresden, August 1813". Designed by William Heath (1795-1840), colored by Thomas Sutherland (1785- ?).
