The Battle of La Suffel was a French victory over Austrian forces of the Seventh Coalition and the last French pitched battle

Pitched battle

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 victory in the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...

. It was fought on 28 June 1815 at Souffelweyersheim

Souffelweyersheim

Souffelweyersheim a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France, and is part of metropolitan Strasbourg.-Etymology:Souffelweyersheim means: the village on the pond of Souffel...

 and Hoenheim

Hoenheim

Hoenheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-Heraldry:"D'or aux trois corbeaux de sable posés deux et un"....

, near Strasbourg

Strasbourg

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.

During the Waterloo Campaign, General Jean Rapp

Jean Rapp

Jean Rapp was a French Army general during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.Rapp was born the son of the janitor of the town-hall of Colmar. He began theological studies to became a clergy man, but with his build and heated character, he was better suited to the military,...

 rallied to Napoleon Bonaparte and was given command of the V Corps (also known as the Army of the Rhine), consisting of about 20,000 men. He was ordered to observe the border near Strasbourg, and to defend the Vosges

Vosges

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. Ten days after Waterloo

Battle of Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands...

 (in which his corps took no part), he met the III Corps of the Austrian Upper Rhine Army under the command of the Crown Prince of Württemberg

William I of Württemberg

William I was the second King of Württemberg from October 30, 1816 until his death.He was born in Lüben, the son of King Frederick I of Württemberg and his wife Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel .-First marriage:...

near Strasbourg and defeated them at the Battle of La Suffel.