Battle of Altenburg

At Battle of Altenberg (28 September 1813) a combined Sixth Coalition cavalry force of Germans, Austrians and Russian Cossacks under the command on General Johann Thielmann defeated a French detachment under the command of General Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes at Altenberg (near Pirna), and took over 1,000 prisoners. The Russian of Cossacks was commanded by Matvei Platov and the Austrian contingent by Emmanuel Mensdorff.

The battle was the culmination of a raid in which Thielmann cavalry successfully attacked Napoleon's lines of communications along the roads between Erfurt and Leipzig in the Saale valley.