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Battles of the War of the Sixth Coalition involving Prussia
- Battle of La RothièreThe Battle of La Rothière, fought on the 1st of February 1814, was one of the rare occasions when Napoleon faced a numerical disadvantage of roughly three to…
- Battle of Château-Thierry (1814)On the 12th of February 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte stood within 75 kilometers of Paris, chasing two battered Allied corps toward a single bridge over the Marne…
- Battle of LaonThe Battle of Laon, fought on the 9th and the 10th of March 1814, placed Napoleon Bonaparte against a force he could not match by numbers or by terrain.
- Battle of Reims (1814)The Battle of Reims on the 12th and the 13th of March 1814 stands as one of the most compressed reversals of fortune in the final chapter of Napoleon's…
- Battle of Arcis-sur-AubeThe Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube unfolded over two days in March 1814, and it nearly ended with the capture of Napoleon Bonaparte himself.
- Battle of VauchampsThe Battle of Vauchamps, fought on the 14th of February 1814, ended a remarkable six-day stretch in which Napoleon repeatedly beat the same enemy.
- Battle of Lützen (1813)On the 2nd of May 1813, near the town of Lützen in Saxony, Napoleon Bonaparte rode among disordered conscripts on a battlefield that was going badly wrong.
- Battle of Bautzen (1813)The Battle of Bautzen, fought on the 20th and the 21st of May 1813, came down to a single question: could Napoleon finally destroy the Prusso-Russian army in…
- Battle of CraonneOn the 7th of March 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte stood on the Chemin des Dames ridge with roughly 30,000 men and a problem he had not anticipated.
- Battle of DresdenThe Battle of Dresden began on the 26th of August, 1813, and within two days it had produced one of Napoleon's most tactically impressive victories.
- Battle of BrienneThe Battle of Brienne on the 29th of January 1814 took place at a site Napoleon knew intimately. He had entered the Royal School of Brienne as a boy of nine…
- Battle of LeipzigThe Battle of Leipzig lasted four days in October 1813, and by its end roughly 133,000 soldiers were dead, wounded, or missing.
- Battle of Paris (1814)On the morning of the 30th of March 1814, the city of Paris woke to the sound of artillery. For two decades, Napoleon had carried war to every corner of…