Campaign in north-east France (1814)
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The 1814 campaign in north-east France was Napoleon's final campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition. Following their victory at Leipzig in 1813, the Austrian, Prussian, Russian, and other German armies of the Sixth Coalition invaded France. Despite the disproportionate forces in favour of the Coalition, Napoleon managed to inflict several defeats, the Six Days' Campaign being the most well-known. However, the campaign ended in total defeat for Napoleon as the Coalition kept advancing towards Paris as Napoleon was out of position to defend the capital, which capitulated in late March 1814. When Napoleon proposed the army march on Paris, his Marshals decided to unanimously overrule Napoleon in order to save the city from further destruction. As a result, the victorious Coalition negotiated the Treaty of Paris, under which Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba and the borders of France were returned to where they had been in 1792.
Campaign in north-east France (1814) | |||||||
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Part of the War of the Sixth Coalition | |||||||
Click an image to load the battle. Left to right, top to bottom: Rothière, Laubressel, Laon, Arcis, Champenoise, Paris | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
France |
Russia Austria British Empire Prussia Baden Bavaria Netherlands Saxony Württemberg | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Napoleon Pierre Augereau François Joseph Lefebvre Jacques MacDonald Auguste de Marmont Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey Édouard Mortier Michel Ney Nicolas Oudinot Claude Victor-Perrin |
Alexander I Lord Robert Stewart Karl von Schwarzenberg Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher Friedrich Wilhelm von Bülow Barclay de Tolly Ferdinand von Wintzingerode Peter Wittgenstein Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken Karl Philipp von Wrede | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
80,000[1] | 370,000–405,000[1][lower-alpha 1] |
Campaign in north-east France