Battle of Diepholz (Napoleonic Age)

The Battle of Diepholz was the first battle of the Fürth Campaign and the penultimate battle of the War of the Seventh Coalition. Two French corps, under Marshals Louis-Nicolas Davout and Jean-de-Dieu Soult, marched north under orders from Emperor Napoléon I to engage and, one and for all, defeat the Prussian army under Gebhard von Blücher. Though heavily outnumbered, the French commanders – regarded by many as two of Napoléon's finest commanders – forced a decisive defeat (the third of the war) on the Prussians, effectively defeating their last battle-ready troops and knocking them out of the war. The day after the battle, Napoléon scored his last and greatest victory at the Battle of Fürth, ending the conflict and ushering in the beginning of the Napoleonic Age.