Date and place
- August 26th and 27th, 1813 at Dresden, on the Elbe river, Saxony, Germany.
Involved forces
- French army (20,000 then 135,000 men) under Marshal Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr then Emperor Napoleon the First.
- Russian-Austrian-Prussian coalition (214,000 men) under Field Marshal Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Emperor Francis I of Austria, Tzar Alexander I of Russia and King Frederick Willian III of Prussia.
Casualties and losses
- French army : 10 000 dead or injured.
- Russian-Austrian-Prussian coalition : 38 000 killed, wounded ou prisoners, 40 cannons.