Talk:Battle of Dresden

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Is this Dresden? -- Zoe


 * I think so - "Dresde" is/was the French name for "Dresden", I think. The page should be moved if this is so (I'm pretty sure it is, but don't know anything about Napoleon...) --Camembert


 * Yep, the date matches the Battle of Dresden, so I moved it. -- Someone else 03:04 Dec 13, 2002 (UTC)

decicive victory?
Given that the french lost shortly after at leipzig to the coaltion, I'm changing the result from a decisive victory. (Lucas(CA) (talk) 03:43, 17 October 2009 (UTC))

Win, Lose, Draw - is history a football game?
There seems to be a recent trend on wikipedia of contributors who don't bother (or are incapable..) to write much in terms of articles changing the result info box and then engaging in endless discussions and edit warring about this. In this case, it is quite staggering: the fact that this major Napoleonic victory was nullified strategically by two subsequent defeats of Napoleon's marshals does not make it a "tactical victory. decisive draw.". What is a "draw" anyway? Is this chess? Is this a football game? Infobox results are a stupid concept anyway and an artificial one, except for clear-cut cases. --Alexandru Demian (talk) 20:22, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * Battle of Dresden map.jpg

"Bombs"?
As Hoffman later recounted, many people were killed by bombs directly in front of him.

I don't understand the use of the word "bombs" here. In 1813 the only types of explosive ordnance were shell, fired from conventional artillery howitzers; rockets (rare); and mortars, which fired bombs. Only the first two were battlefield weapons. Mortars, fired from a platform rather than a wheeled carriage, were tactically immobile and thus were used in sieges, and sometimes aboard bomb-vessels that would might fire them against land targets.

Grenades, thrown by grenadiers and so-called because they resembled pomegranates (pomegranate tree = 'grenadier' in French), were also not battlefield weapons in 1813.

Do we know what Hoffman meant? My guess is he was referring to howitzer shells. I have found online the citation referred to, at http://www.epoche-napoleon.net/de/werk/h/hoffmann01/erzaehlungen/die-vision-auf-dem-schlachtfelde-von-dresden.html, but this is a lurid, poetic and non-factual account that makes no mention of "killed by bombs directly in front of him". Tirailleur (talk) 11:35, 3 May 2019 (UTC)