Battle of Fürth (Napoleonic Age)

The Battle of Fürth was the final and most decisive battle of the War of the Seventh Coalition. Napoléon Bonaparte, French Emperor and victor at the recent Battle of Waterloo that July, cemented here his legacy as one of the greatest commanders in history by soundly defeating the last grand army of the Coalition in a fierce seven-to-eight hour battle. His victory at Fürth broke all the Coalition's hopes for ever beating him, resulting in the Treaty of Prague (signed that October), which is regarded as having begun the Napoleonic Age. The battle is also significant for being the last battle in which Napoléon ever commanded troops, and also as the bloodiest battle of all the Napoleonic Wars (beating the Battle of Borodino in September 1812) in terms of the total number of men killed and wounded.