FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE

1806

Date	Name	Attacker	Defender	Description	Victor	Casualties
January 1806	Berlin	Napoleon 65,000	Blucher 15,000	Napoleon marches the 65,000 man Grande Armee to the outskirts of Berlin where he is met by Blucher's 15,000 Prussian defenders. Blucher refuses to retire inside the city and deploys his forces. The French make short work of the vastly outnumbered defenders. Blucher retreats his remaining forces to the northeast to avoid further destruction to the city.		5,000 French 10,000 Prussians
January 1806	Amsterdam	Davout 70,000	35,000	Marshal Davout arrives at Amsterdam with the Army of the Rhine (90,000). The 35,000 Anglo-Russian defenders retire into the city except for 5,000 Russians who are quicky overrun. The Iron Marshal proceeds to assault the fortifications but the defenders repel the initial French assaults. Davout redoubles his efforts and a breech is made. With the French pouring into the city, the remaining defenders surender and Russian shipping barely escapes to the open sea before being captured. In the name of the Emperor, Davout decrees the liberation of the Batvian Republic.		10,000 French 10,000 Russian 25,000 British (15,000 captured)
January 1806	Cassel	Murat 15,000	5,000	The Imperial brother-in law Marshal Murat, entrusted with his first major command, captures the city. Wearing a black Hungarian pelisse, a black dolman trimmed with gold braid and astrakhan fur, a black-and-gold sash, a small gold-embroidered cartridge box, a scarlet shako, with a white aigrette of heron's plumes, Murat rides into the city after an intense but successful assault.		5,000 French 5,000 Hessians
January 1806	Hannover	Soult 20,000	5,000	Marshals Soult and Ney quickly secure the city.		5,000 French 5,000 Hannoverians
January 1806	Trieste	Hiller 30,000	15,000	Dalmatian patriots are still celebrating when Hiller descends on the city with 30,000 men determined to reassert Hapsburg authority. The french commander has 15,000 defenders who retire behind the city walls. Hiller, aware of disastorous events unfolding to the north and the urgent need for a victory, orders an immediate assault which succeeds in breaking the defender's will to resist. 5,000 Frenchmen and 5,000 Dalmations become Austrian prisoners. By decree from Vienna, the Dalmatian state is dissolved.		5,000 Austrians 15,000 French (10,000 captured)
February 1806	Munich	Charles 60,000	Massena 50,000	Archduke Charles, at the head of 60,000 men, attempts to deprive Napoleon of his Bavarian allies. Opposing him is Massena in command of a polyglot force of Frenchmen, Bavarians and Italians totalling 50,000 men. The freshly minted King of Bavaria, Maximillian I, having just been crowned in January, nervously watches from the city as Massena deploys to defend his kingdom. Charles opts for a frontal attack which fails to break the defenders. Massena's counterattack catches the Austrians at the end of their tether and forces them from the field.		15,000 Austrians 5,000 French
March 1806	Risenbirge	Napoleon 80,000	Kutusov 40,000	Napoleon attacks Kutusov in the Sudenten mountains east of Prague. Napoleon commands 80,000. Kutusov has 40,000. The wily Russian commander takes advantage of the mountainous terrain and spring thaws to block the French advance. However, he does not account for Imperial Guard. Napoleon commits his elite troops which attack the Russians in close order. The attack is too much for the Russians and Kutusov is forced from his mountain perch, losing many men to an aggressive French pursuit.		5,000 French 20,000 Russian
March 1806	Linz	Massena 50,000	Ferdinand 20,000	Disregarding King Maximillian's pleas to remain at Munich, Massena sidsteps Charles and sets off down the Danube to strike at the Austrian supply lines at Linz. Massena commands a mixed force of Frenchmen, Italians and Bavarians totalling 50,000 men. Feldmarschall-Leutnant Ferdinand meets Massena with 20,000 Austrians. The Austrians put up a stubborn defense lasting until the evening hours. In the end, the numbers prove too great and the Austrian defense disentegartes. Ferdinand salvages half his original force in the retreat. The defeat leaves Charles' army on the Bavarian border in a precarious supply position.		5,000 French 10,000 Austrians
March 1806	Linz II	Charles 80,000	Massena 45,000	With Napoleon near Prague and Massena in his rear, Archduke Charles wastes no time retracing his steps down the Danube where he is met by the remnants of Ferdinand's force and reinforcements from Vienna under his brother John. The Austrian host numbering 80,000 men is the second largest fielded by the Hapsburgs in the current campaign. Charles' decisive movements catch Massena by surprise and has no choice but to deploy his mixed force of 45,000 with the Danube to his back. The battle opens with inconclusive assaults on the French position. Massena's suite stops on a hill to allow the Marshal to observe the Austrian positions. Just as the Massena unhorses, he is incapacitated when a spent roundshot strikes him in the left leg. False rumors of Massena's demise spreads through the French ranks and resistance crumbles. The ensusing withdrawal turns to rout as the leaderless French discover to their dismay that there are too few bridges to accomodate the army's passage over the river and to safety.		5,000 Austrians 20,000 French
April 1806	Vienna	Napoleon 70,000	10,000	Napoleon falls on the city with 70,000 men and crushes the 10,000 man garrison		5,000 French 5,000 Austrian 5,000 Russian (captured)
April 1806	Berndorf	Charles 105,000	Napoleon 65,000	Reinforced form Budapest, Charles makes good the distance between Linz and Vienna and approaches the city with 105,000 men. Napoleon faces the Austrian army with 65,000 frenchmen. From the north, Kutusov and his army of 50,000 struggle to arrive but the footsore Russians are still 40 miles from the city when Charles attacks. The hamlet of Berndorf anchors the French line. Austrian assaults on the position fizzle as Marshal Lannes directs the defense of the French center. Massed French guns hammer the exposed Austrians throughout the afternoon. Judging the time is right, Napoleon commits his heavy cavalry which pierces the Austrian line. The numerically supoerior Austrian cavalry has difficulty reacting in the resulting confusion. A desperate counterchage led by the yourg Archduke John fails to right the situation. WithVienna's spires within sight, Chalres is forced to quit the field.		35,000 Austrian 20,000 French
May 1806	Budapest	Lannes 15,000	5,000	Lannes, with 15,000 men, defeats the 5,000 landwehr defending the city.		5,000 French 5,000 Austrian
June 1806	Dresden	Davout 10,000	5,000	The cossacks are still celebrating their "liberation" of the Saxon capital when Davout falls on them with 10,000 men. The city is quickly recaptured.		negligible French 5,000 Russian
June 1806	Danzig	Soult 75,000	Hohenloe 20,000	Soult and the Armée du Oder (75,000) attacks Hohenloe (20,000) at Danzig. The Prussians are well dug in but are too outnumbered for sustained resistance. Rather than allow himself to be bottled up in the city, Hohenloe extricates the survivors of his force and retreats to join the main Prussian positions on the Vistula. The lack of french cavalry keeps losses in the retreat to a minimum.		5,000 French 10,000 Prussian
June 1806	Bromberg	Barclay de Tolly 55,000	Eugene 25,000	The Armée du Oder pauses on the Vistula in front of the Prussian defenses for a badly needed rest. Eugene and 25,000 men are detached by Soult to guard the right flank. The Russians and Prussians quickly mass 105,000 men under Bagration to menace the french center. While Eugene watches the formidible host before him, 55,000 hard-marching Russians under Barclay de Tolly appear on his exposed right flank, having crossed the Vistula undetected at Thorn. The surprise is complete and Eugene is routed before Bagration can even join the fight. Relentless Russian cavalry pursuit cuts down many stragglers. Barclay de Tolly drives a wedge between Eugene and the main body under Soult.		5,000 Russian 15,000 French
June 1806	Brest	Uxbridge 15,000 English 5,000 Russian	15,000	Major-General Uxbridge lands with an Anglo-Russian force of 20,000 on the Brittany pennisula and quickly surrounds the city of Brest. The 15,000 man garrison has a decided advantage with the benefit of the city's fortifications. However, allied morale is remakably high and several assaults on the town sap the strength of the defenders. A storming party breaches the walls and the city falls, but not before 18 french naval vessels are scuttled rather than risk capture.		5,000 English 5,000 Russian 15,000 French
July 1806	Vimiero	La Romana 45,000	15,000 Port.	40,000 Spanish troops under the command of General Pedro Caro y Sureda, Marquis of La Romana invade Portugal and march up the Tagus River toward Lisbon. An abrupt turn northward and a hard night's march brings the Spanish to the city of Vimiero. The garrison is unprepared for the sudden apparance of the Spanish and surrenders after the first assualt on the city's fotifications.		5,000 Spanish 15,000 Portuguese (10,000 captured)
July 1806	Prenzlau	Soult 60,000	Barclay de Tolly 50,000 (reinforced to 115,000)	Reacting quickly to Eugene's defeat, Soult masses the bulk of the Armée du Oder (60,000 men) and encounters Barclay's 50,000 advancing men at dawn at the small town of Prenzlau. A meeting engagement turns into a major confrontation with neither side able to gain an advantage. Dispatches from Barclay reach Bagration crossing the Vistula 30 miles away. Bagration's 65,000 men arrive on the field in the late afternoon and immediately enter the action. Too late Soult realizes he is now outnumbered by 2 to 1. With no reserves, he must weather the storm as masses of fresh Russians batter his lines. Bagration leads the assault that breaches the French right. In the fading light, the Russians roll up the French line. The slaughter is immense. Russian cavalry continues to harass the smashed French army late into the evening hours but the bulk of the Russian army is simply too exhausted to pursue the enemy.		10,000 Russian 35,000 French
July 1806	Stettin	Benningsen 10,000	5,000	10,000 Russians under Benningsen march past Soult and surprise a contingent of Westphalian cavalry passing through Stettin en route for the Armée du Oder. The cavalry manages to withdraw inside the city but cannot hold the Russians at bay.		5,000 Russian 5,000 French
July 1806	Robel	Barclay de Tolly 35,000 Hohenloe 30,000	Soult 25,000	Barclay de Tolly (35,000) pursues Soult (25,000) across Pomerania and catches up with the Marshal at the town of Robel. Joining the Russians are 25,000 landwehr under Hohenloe. Soult deploys his exhausted troops but the momentum of the Allies is too much to resist. The French line holds most of the day but Soult is obliged to withdaw as morale begins to crumble under successive Russian blows. Again, Allied cavalry takes a fearful toll on the stragglers as the 10,000 survivors of the Armée du Oder seek the safety of the opposite bank of the Warta River.		10,000 Russian 15,000 French
September 1806	Setubal	La Romana 45,000	Uxbridge 45,000	55,000 Spanish troops under General Pedro Caro y Sureda, Marquis of La Romana move against the Portuguese capital. Uxbridge waits for the Spanish with a mixed force of 45,000 men in fortified positions near the town of Setubal. La Romana has difficulty deploying his troops over the Tagus. His attack is slow to develop and delivered piecemeal throughout the day. Uxbridge's polyglot force performs well and the Spanish attacks founder on his fortified lines. By nightfall, the Spanish lose heart and withdraw toward the border. Agressive English cavalry pursuit cut down many stragglers.	England	20,000 Spanish 10,000 English