siege, Revolutionary and Napoleonic

Siege of Dresden

Name: Siege of Dresden
Start: 1813-10-17
Location: Dresden, Germany

Siege of Dresden was a siege conducted on 17 October 1813 at Dresden, in what is now Germany; it lasted 25 days. The recorded result: Austro-Russian victory.

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Казаки и башкиры около Дрездена, осень 1813 года. Christian Gottfried Morasch, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fought17 October 1813lasted 25 days

WhereDresden, Germany51.050N, 13.740E

OutcomeAustro-Russian victory

BelligerentsFrench EmpireagainstAustrian Empire; Russian Empire

Record

Date	17 October 1813 to 11 November 1813
Place	Dresden, Germany 51.050N, 13.740E
Kind	Siege, Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Casualties and losses	35,000 captured
Commanders	Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr	Johann von Klenau Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Bombing of Dresden 1945, same recorded site
Siege of Dresden 1760, 0.5 km W
Battle of Dresden 1813, 1.9 km S
Battle of Maxen 1759, 15 km S
Siege of Pirna 1756, 16 km SE

Contested ground: this site was fought over 4 times between 1760 and 1945.

Elsewhere in 1813

Siege of Dresden is one of 3,694 engagements of the 19th century in the atlas and one of 668 in present-day Germany.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q106623316, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Dresden (1813), revision 1370740822, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.