See Battle of Chlumec for the 1126 battle at Kulm
The Battle of Kulm was fought near the town Kulm (Czech: Chlumec) and the village Přestanov in northern Bohemia. It was fought on 29–30 August 1813, during the War of the Sixth Coalition. A French Corps under General Dominique Vandamme attacked Alexander Ostermann-Tolstoy's Russian Corps on 29 August. The next day, Friedrich von Kleist's Prussian Corps hit Vandamme in the rear while Russian and Austrian reinforcements attacked the French front and left. Vandamme was defeated with the loss of 25,000 men and 82 guns.
1813Aug, 30
First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
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