Capitulation of Stettin
Napoleon I of France’s Grande Armée shattered the Prussian-Saxon armies at the Battle of Jena-Auerstadt on 14 October 1806. Lieutenant General Friedrich Gisbert Wilhelm von Romberg surrendered the garrison and fortress of Stettin to a French light cavalry brigade led by General of Brigade Antoine Lasalle on 29 October. This event was one of a number of surrenders by demoralized Prussian soldiers to equal or inferior French forces after their disastrous defeat.
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Napoleon I of France’s Grande Armée shattered the Prussian-Saxon armies at the Battle of Jena-Auerstadt on 14 October 1806. The broken Prussian armies crossed the Elbe River and fled to the northeast in an attempt to reach the east bank of the Oder. Lieutenant General Friedrich Gisbert Wilhelm von Romberg surrendered the garrison and fortress of Stettin to a French light cavalry brigade led by General of Brigade Antoine Lasalle on 29 October. This event was one of a number of surrenders by demoralized Prussian soldiers to equal or inferior French forces after their disastrous defeat. Marshal Joachim Murat intercepted over 10,000 Prussians at theBattle of Prenzlau and bluffed them into surrendering on 28 October. On the afternoon of the 29th, Lasalle appeared before the fortress ofStettin and demanded its surrender. A completely unnerved Romberg, believing he was confronted by 30,000 Frenchmen, entered into negotiations with Lasalle and surrendered StettIn that night. Estimates of the numbers vary between 500 French hussars of the 5th and 7th French Hussars and 5,000 to 6,000Prussians within the garrison.
Within a week, the fortress. of Küstrin capitulated and three isolated Prussian columns were hunted down and captured at Boldekow, Anklam, and Wolgast. This left only one Prussian corps at large between the. Elbe and Oder, plus garrisons at Magdeburg and in the former Electorate of Hanover. Murat sent General Schimmel’s 1,300 flank guard at Zehdenick to cut off Hohenlohe, Lannes, and Bernadotte north from Berlin. After losing 250 men, the survivors fled along the highway until 26 October, the next day, General Jean-BaptisteBernadotte captured most of the Gensirassier Regiment. On 28 October, Murat finally ran out of men to stop HohenLohe’s escape. After a three-hour action, Hohen Lohe drove off Murat’s dragoons before Murat ran into a flank guard which was acting as a guard for Jean Baptiste Baptiste Milhaude Nrassier. The next day Murat captured the guard.
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