The Battle of La Suffel was a French victory over Austrian forces of the
Seventh Coalition
The Hundred Days (french: les Cent-Jours ), also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on20 March 1815 and the second restoration ...
and the last French
pitched battle
A pitched battle or set-piece battle is a battle in which opposing forces each anticipate the setting of the battle, and each chooses to commit to it. Either side may have the option to disengage before the battle starts or shortly thereafter. A ...
victory in the
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...
. It was fought on 28 June 1815 at
Souffelweyersheim and
Hoenheim, near
Strasbourg.
During the
Hundred Days, General
Jean Rapp
General Count Jean Rapp (27 April 1771 – 8 November 1821) was a French Army officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars and twice governor of the Free City of Danzig. He served as Aide-de-camp to French Generals Lou ...
rallied to
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader wh ...
and was given command of the V Corps (also known as the
Army of the Rhine
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), consisting of about 20,000 men. He was ordered to observe the border near Strasbourg, and to defend the
Vosges
The Vosges ( , ; german: Vogesen ; Franconian and gsw, Vogese) are a range of low mountains in Eastern France, near its border with Germany. Together with the Palatine Forest to the north on the German side of the border, they form a single ...
. Ten days after
Waterloo (in which his corps took no part), he met the III Corps of the Austrian
Upper Rhine Army under the command of the
Crown Prince of Württemberg near Strasbourg and defeated them at the Battle of La Suffel.
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Conflicts in 1815
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June 1815 events