Battle of Ligny
| Battle of Ligny | |||||||
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| Part of the War of the Seventh Coalition | |||||||
The Battle of Ligny by Theodore Jung | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| France | Prussia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Napoleon Bonaparte Jean-de-Dieu Soult Emmanuel de Grouchy Antoine Drouot Dominique Vandamme Étienne Maurice Gérard |
Gebhard von Blücher (WIA) Graf von Gneisenau Graf von Zieten Ludwig von Pirch Johann von Thielmann | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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68,000 210 cannons |
83,417 224 cannons | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 8,300–12,000 killed, wounded or captured |
16,000 killed or wounded 8,000 captured or missing 21 guns lost | ||||||
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The Battle of Ligny, in which French troops of the Armée du Nord under the command of Napoleon I defeated part of a Prussian army under Field Marshal Blücher, was fought on 16 June 1815 near Ligny in what is now Belgium. The result was a tactical victory for the French, but the bulk of the Prussian army survived the battle in good order, was reinforced by Prussian troops who had not fought at Ligny, and played a role two days later at the Battle of Waterloo. Ligny was the last victory in Napoleon's military career.