Siege of Kolberg (1807)

Former battle memorial with statues of Nettelbeck and Gneisenau in Kolberg

Date	March to 2 July 1807
Location	Kolberg (Kołobrzeg), Prussian Province of Pomerania
Result	Siege lifted by peace treaty

Belligerents

French Empire

French Empire auxiliaries:

Polish insurgents of the Greater Poland Uprising

Italy

Nassau

Prussia
Naval support:

Sweden

United Kingdom

Commanders and leaders

Victor-Perrin

Teulié †

Loison

Mortier

Severoli

Lucadou

Gneisenau

Nettelbeck

Schill

Strength

14,000 men
41 guns

6,000 men (fortress)
~230 guns (fortress)
46 guns on Swedish frigate
add. guns on British vessel

Casualties and losses

102 officers and 5,000 men dead and wounded or died of sickness

55 officers and 3,000 men dead, wounded, or died of sickness

French Empire

Prussia
Naval support:

The Siege of Kolberg ((also known as: Siege of Colberg or Siege of Kołobrzeg)} took place from March to 2 July 1807 during the War of the Fourth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars. An army of the First French Empire and several foreign auxiliaries (including Polish insurgents) of France besieged the Prussian fortified town of Kolberg, the only remaining Prussian-held fortress in the Prussian province of Pomerania. The siege was not successful and was lifted upon the announcement of the peace of Tilsit.

After Prussia lost the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt in late 1806, French troops marched north into Prussian Pomerania. Fortified Stettin (Szczecin) surrendered without battle, and the province became occupied by the French forces. Kolberg resisted, and the implementation of a French siege was delayed until March 1807 by the freikorps of Ferdinand von Schill operating around the fortress and capturing the assigned French commander of the siege, Victor-Perrin. During these months, the military commander of Kolberg, Lucadou, and the representative of the local populace, Nettelbeck, prepared the fortress's defensive structures.

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