The Combat of Möckern
5th April 1813

Notes

1	A third major road, shown on many maps of this battlefield, which runs straight out of Magdeburg before turning north to Burg was not in fact built until 1819.
2	Grenier had also been in command of the whole of XI Corps since its commander, Gouvion St-Cyr, reurned to France sick with typhus on March 10th. It appears that battlefield command of the 35th division may have fallen to General Grundler, XI Corps chief of staff.
3	Nafziger gives a different deployment for some of the the French divisions, placing Charpentier, Chastel and Bordesoulle at Wahlitz in addition to Lagrange's division.

The fighting in Zeddenick was described in after-action reports by

BOWDEN, S. (1990), Napoleon's Grande Armeé of 1813, Emperor's Press, Chicago
ELTING, J. R. & ESPOSITO, V. (1999), A Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars, Greenhill Books, London
HOFSCHRÖER, P. (2001), Lützen & Bautzen 1813, Osprey, London
LINCK, T. (1993), Napoleon's Generals: The Waterloo Campaign, Emperor's Press, Chicago
NAFZIGER, G. (1992), Lützen & Bautzen - Napoleon's sping Campaign of 1813, Emperor's Press, Chicago
NASH, D. (1972), The Prussian Army 1808-1815 - Regiments, uniforms, equipment, organisations and tactics of a major participnt in the Napoleonic Wa, Almark, London
SIX, G. (1934), Dictionnaire Biographique des Generaux & Amiraux Francais, Saffroy, Paris
SMITH, D. (1998), The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book, Greenhill Books, London
HOLLEBEN, General von; Geschichte des Frühjahrsfeldzuges 1813, Berlin 1904
RICCIADELLO, A: The Italians in 1813, First Empire 55, 2000

I am indebted to Jörg Scheibe, Markus Stein and Hans-Karl Weiss for their help in compiling this account.