May Uprising in Dresden
| May Uprising in Dresden | |||||||
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| Part of Revolutions of 1848 | |||||||
Prussian and Saxon troops assault revolutionary barricades in the Dresden Neumarkt | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Dresden revolutionaries |
Kingdom of Saxony Prussia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Samuel Tzschirner Karl Gotthelf Todt Otto Heubner Alexander Heinze | |||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 3,000 | 5,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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197 killed 114 wounded ~1,200 captured |
31 killed 94 wounded | ||||||
The May Uprising took place in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony in 1849; it was one of the last of the series of events known as the Revolutions of 1848.