Timeline August 1813

Events in August 1813 5

• 1813 Battle of the Pyrenees Marshal Soult fails to relieve besieged Spanish fortresses Marshal Nicolas Soult launched a French counteroffensive through the Pyrenees to relieve the besieged garrisons of San Sebastian and Pamplona. Wellington's forces repelled the attacks in a series of engagements around Sorauren. The failed offensive confirmed Allied momentum in the Peninsular War.
• 1813 Capture of Caracas Simon Bolivar retakes Venezuela's capital from Spain Simon Bolivar's forces entered Caracas after a rapid military campaign from New Granada, expelling Spanish royalist forces. The victory led to the proclamation of the Second Republic of Venezuela and Bolivar's acclamation as El Libertador. Royalist forces would recapture the city the following year.
• 1813 Battle of Dresden Napoleon wins his last major battlefield victory Napoleon personally led French forces to defeat a larger Austrian-Russian-Prussian army attacking Dresden. It proved to be his final significant battlefield victory of the Napoleonic Wars. Allied general Jean Victor Moreau, fighting against his former emperor, was mortally wounded during the battle.
• 1813 Battle of the Katzbach Prussian forces rout the French in Silesia A Prussian army under Gebhard von Blucher defeated Marshal MacDonald's French forces along the flooded Katzbach river in Silesia. Heavy rain and swollen rivers trapped and drowned many retreating French soldiers. The defeat badly weakened Napoleon's position in the wider 1813 campaign.
• 1813 Fort Mims Massacre Creek warriors attack an American stockade in Alabama A force of Red Stick Creek warriors attacked Fort Mims, a stockade of American settlers and allied Creek in the Mississippi Territory, killing several hundred people. The massacre triggered a full-scale American military response and drew Andrew Jackson into the Creek War. It remains one of the deadliest attacks on American settlers in frontier history.