Good day,
can anyone tell me if the Prussians did a scorched earth policy in 1813 when they again had to rertreat from the Napoleon?
With regards
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Pars pro toto... Sorry for the old German fonts, somewhere out in the net there are OCR apps even for of these fonts - afterwards for example the Google Translator can do the translation... Best regards, Thomas
Christian, in short, thy did not, despite whatever the Prussian "Landsturmverordnung" said. In contrast, there is evidence, that the French during the pursuit of the Russo-Prussian army into Silesia (after the battle of Bautzen) looted and burnt many villages in Silesia. If you are interested, I can retrieve the Prussian sources for that from my little archive. Of course, the French approach was not a systematic one, more driven by a "soldateska" eager for looting. Another theme is, that Napoleon is said to have ordered, when leaving the right bank of the Elbe (end of September 1813), the systematic evacuation of cattle, burning of resources etc. to do harm to the allies. This is reported, but I have never seen this order, perhaps it was later supressed (as many others, at least in the edition of the "Correspondance" under Napoleon III.)?
Regards, Thomas