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Following the start of the 1813 War of Liberation, Blücher was again placed in high command, and he was present at Lützen and Bautzen. During the armistice, he worked on the organization of the Prussian forces, and when the war was resumed, became commander-in-chief of the Army of Silesia, with August von Gneisenau and Muffling as his principal staff officers and 40,000 Prussians and 50,000 Russians under his command.
The irresolution and divergence of interests usual in allied armies found in him a restless opponent. Knowing that if he could not induce others to co-operate he was prepared to attempt the task at hand by himself often caused other generals to follow his lead. He defeated Marshal Macdonald at the Katzbach, and by his victory over Marshal Marmont at Möckern led the way to the decisive overthrow of Napoleon at Leipzig, which was taken by Blücher's own army on the evening of the last day of the battle.
The combat of Brienne and the Battle of La Rothière were the chief incidents of the first stage of the celebrated campaign of 1814, and they were quickly followed by victories of Napoleon over Blücher at Champaubert, Vauchamps and Montmirail. But the courage of the Prussian leader was undiminished, and his great victory at Laon (March 9 to 10) practically decided the fate of the campaign.
After this, Blücher infused some of his energy into the operations of Prince Schwarzenberg's Army of Bohemia, and at last this army and the Army of Silesia marched in one body directly towards Paris. The victory of Montmartre, the entry of the allies into the French capital, and the overthrow of the First Empire were the direct consequences.
. He was put in command of the Army of the Lower Rhine, with General August von Gneisenau as his chief of staff. In the campaign of 1815, the Prussians sustained a serious defeat at the outset at Ligny (June 16), in the course of which the old field marshal was repeatedly ridden over by cavalry and lay trapped under his dead horse for several hours, his life saved only by the devotion of his aide-de-camp, Count Nostitz. He was unable to resume command for some hours, and Gneisenau drew off the defeated army and rallied it. After bathing his wounds in brandy, and fortified by liberal internal application of the same, Blücher rejoined his army. Gneisenau feared that the British had reneged on their earlier agreements and favored a withdrawal, but Blücher convinced him to send two Corps to join Wellington at Waterloo.[1] He then led his on an endless, tortuous march along muddy paths, arriving on the field of Waterloo in the late afternoon. With the battle hanging in the balance Blücher's army intervened with decisive and crushing effect, his vanguard drawing off Napoleon's badly needed reserves, and his main body being instrumental in crushing French resistance.
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HMS Royal Sovereign was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy,[1] which served as the flagship of Admiral Collingwood at the Battle of Trafalgar. Royal Sovereign was part of Admiral Howe's fleet at the Glorious First of June, where she suffered 14 killed and 41 wounded.[2]
The first ship of the fleet in action at Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, she led one column of warships; Nelson's Victory led the other. Due to the re-coppering of her hull prior to her arrival off Cádiz, Royal Sovereign was a considerably better sailer in the light winds present that day than other vessels, and pulled well ahead of the rest of the fleet. As she cut the enemy line alone and engaged the Spanish flagship Santa Ana, Nelson pointed to her and said, 'See how that noble fellow Collingwood carries his ship into action!' At approximately the same moment, Collingwood remarked to his captain, Edward Rotheram, 'What would Nelson give to be here?'[3]
Royal Sovereign and Santa Ana duelled for much of the battle, with Santa Ana taking fire from fresh British ships passing through the line, while nearby French and Spanish vessels fired on Royal Sovereign. Santa Ana struck at 14:15, having suffered casualties numbering 238 dead and wounded after battling both Royal Sovereign and HMS Belleisle. Royal Sovereign lost her mizzen and mainmasts during the battle and suffered 141 killed and wounded.
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1 star------------------------------------------------Midshipman
2 stars--------------------------------------------------Masters Mate
3 stars---------------------------------------------------Lieutenant
4 stars-----------------------------------------------------Master and Commander
5 stars--------------------------------------------------------Post-Captain
6 stars--------------------------------------------------Rear-Admiral of the (blue, white or red depending on seniority)
7 stars-------------------------------------------------------Vice-Admiral of the (blue, white or red depending on seniority)
8 stars------------------------------------------------------------Admiral of the (blue, white or red depending on seniority)
9 stars and creator of the group---------------------------------------------Admiral of the Fleet
*All admins. will be posted as a Rear-Admiral of the red.
*In seniority the lowest is blue then white and finally red.
*All members are responsible for telling the admins. if a change of ranking occurs so that they can verify this.
*The Political-Advisor (diplomat) of the group is given the rank of Post-Captain.
*Remember the stars also reflect land battles so an Admiral may not be so hard to defeat really, the same was true in real life often admirals were simply there because of political clout though you had to have worked thorugh all the ranks so I encourage you to play people with more stars!
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