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Capitulation of Stettin
In the
Capitulation of Stettin
on 29–30 October 1806,
Lieutenant General
Friedrich Gisbert Wilhelm von Romberg
surrendered the garrison and fortress to a much smaller French light cavalry brigade led by
General of Brigade
Antoine Lasalle
. This event was one of a number of surrenders by demoralized Prussian soldiers to equal or inferior French forces after their disastrous defeat at the
Battle of Jena-Auerstedt
on 14 October.
Stettin
, now Szczecin, Poland, is a port city on the
Oder River
near the
Baltic Sea
lying 120 kilometers north-northeast of
Berlin
.
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