Siege_of_Magdeburg_(1806)--Czar_of_Russia_Alexander_I

The siege of Magdeburg (French: Siège de Magdebourg) took place from 25 October to 8 November 1806 during the War of the Fourth Coalition. A French force, initially under the command of Marshal Joachim Murat, then a French army Corps under the command of Marshal Michel Ney laid siege and eventually obtained the surrender of Franz Kasimir von Kleist's Prussian force that had taken refuge in Magdeburg, Prussia's second city.