Author: BATTLE OF LEIPZIG
Title: Foreign Office Memorandum.
Description: Printed by R.G. Clarke, 1813. Single sheet, 210 x 165 mm. Report of despatches received from Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Stewart "...giving the details of a complete and signal victory gained over the whole of the Combined Armies of Bohemia, Silesia, and the North of Germany, over Bonaparte, in the neighbourhood of Leipzig on the 18th and 19th. [of October 1813]." Involving 560,00 soldiers, this was the largest battle ever fought on European soil prior to World War One and led to 133,000 casualties.

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