Appendix

Clausewitz’s Battles

A critical element of Clausewitz’s development—and an enormous part of his life—was his combat experience, something that many previous biographies touch upon but do not thoroughly explore. Below is a list of the combat actions at which Clausewitz was present. Determining all of those in which he was under fire is impossible from the currently known records. There are at least thirty-six incidents of Clausewitz, or the force he is part of, being under fire. His only known combat wound is noted.

1793
Feb. 2	Ginsheim
March 23–July 22	Siege of Mainz
June 6	Storming of Zahlbach Trenches (Mainz)
July 7	Storming of Zahlbach Heights (Mainz)
*Aug. 17	Kettrich Heights
*Aug. 20	Kettrich Heights
*Sept. 14	Pirmasens
*Dec. 22	Lembach
	1794
*May 23	Kaiserslautern
*May 23	Trippstadt
*July 2–3	Two actions: Käshofen, Trippstadt, Johanniskreuz
*July 7	Leimen (Near Heidelberg)
*July 12–13	Schänzel
*July 13	Johanniskreuz
*The month of July	Probably eight actions total
	1806
October 14	Auerstedt
October 16	Greuβen—Rearguard
October 17	Nordhausen—Rearguard
October 28	Prenzlau—Captured
	1812
July 19, and three	Russia—Rearguard: “several skirmishes”
weeks after
July 27	Vitebsk
*Aug. 15-16	Smolensk
Sept. 7	Borodino
*Sept. 8	Mozhaisk
Sept. 10	Krymskoye. His horse was wounded.

    After Borodino, until the Russians marched through Moscow on September 14, Clausewitz likely endured daily combat as he served in the rearguard blocking Napoleon’s advance on Moscow.

	1813
May 2	Lützen (Groβgörschen)—Bayonet wound on head.
May 20–21	Bautzen
*May 26	Haynau
Aug. 21–Dec. 1	Stecknitz-Mecklenburg Campaign—Several skirmishes
Sept. 18	The Göhrde
Dec. 10	Sehestedt
	1815
June 16	Ligny
June 18-19	Wavre
*July 2	Châtillon area, Paris—Several firefights
*Present, but whether he saw action is unknown.