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...