Prussian general
Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg
Prussia 26 September 1759 – 4 October 1830
In 1814: Commander of the Prussian I Corps
Yorck was the stern general whose Convention of Tauroggen in 1812 took Prussia out of the French alliance. In February he warned Sacken to retreat before Montmirail, and he covered the escape over the Marne at Château-Thierry.
On the timeline
Battles
Sources
- Wikidata (dates of birth and death, portrait identifiers)
- F. Loraine Petre, Napoleon at Bay, 1814 (London: John Lane, 1914) · Public domain. The main source for strengths, losses and movements on this site.
- Images: Wikimedia Commons. The licence for each image is checked at build time and linked from its caption.