Battles of the War of the Fourth Coalition - Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Siege of Kolberg, Battle of Lubeck, Battle of Prenzlau (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 63. Chapters: Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Siege of Kolberg, Battle of Lubeck, Battle of Prenzlau, Battle of Halle, Battle of Mohrungen, Battle of Pu tusk, Battle of Schleiz, Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, Battle of Golymin, Capitulation of Stettin, Siege of Hameln, Capitulation of Pasewalk, Battle of Waren-Nossentin, Siege of Stralsund, Greater Poland Uprising, Capitulation of Erfurt, Siege of Danzig, Battle of Heilsberg, Battle of Saalfeld, Battle of Ostro ka, Siege of Magdeburg. Excerpt: The Siege of Kolberg, also known as siege of Colberg (Polish: ) 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 its client states 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. After Prussia lost the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt in late 1806, French troops marched north into Prussian Pomerania. Fortified Stettin (now Szczecin) surrendered without battle, and the province became occupied by the French forces. Kolberg resisted, and the implementation of a French siege was delayed until March 1807 by the freikorps of Ferdinand von Schill operating around the fortress and capturing the assigned French commander of the siege, Victor-Perrin. During these months, the military commander of Kolberg, Lucadou, and the representative of the local bourgeoisie, Nettelbeck, prepared the fortress's defensive structures. The French forces commanded by Teulie, composed primarily of troops from Italy, succeeded in encircling Kolberg by mid-March. Napoleon put the siege force under the command of Loison, Frederick William III entrusted Gneisenau with the defense. In early April, the siege forces w...