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Conflicts in 1814
- Battle of La RothièreNapoleon stood at the edge of disaster in November 1813. His army had just suffered a crushing defeat at Leipzig, forcing him to retreat across the Rhine…
- Battle of Château-Thierry (1814)On the 1st of February 1814, Blücher and his generals celebrated a victory at La Rothière. They believed the war would end soon.
- Battle of LaonThe town of Laon rose over 100 meters above the surrounding countryside on the 9th of March 1814. This flat-topped hill provided a commanding view for anyone…
- Battle of ChampaubertOn the 1st of February 1814, Prussian field marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher and Austrian field marshal Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg defeated…
- Battle of MontmirailOn the 1st of February 1814, Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher commanded 80,000 Allied soldiers from his own Army of Silesia and Austrian…
- Battle of Reims (1814)On the 9th of March 1814, Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher defeated Emperor Napoleon's army at Laon. The French lost 4,000 killed and wounded plus…
- Battle of Arcis-sur-AubeIn late February 1814, Napoleon discovered that the Allied armies of Schwarzenberg and Blücher had separated. Blücher's army was making a lunge at Paris with…
- Battle of VauchampsOn the 14th of February 1814, the Battle of Vauchamps marked the final major engagement of the Six Days Campaign. This conflict occurred within the War of…
- Battle of MormantOn the 1st of February 1814, Allied generals celebrated their victory at La Rothière. They believed Napoleon was defeated and planned to advance on Paris…
- Battle of Saint-DizierOn the 24th of March 1814, King Frederick William III of Prussia and Tsar Alexander I of Russia met at Vitry to coordinate their military strategy.
- Battle of MontereauOn the 10th of February 1814, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg moved his Army of Bohemia from Troyes. Peter Wittgenstein and Karl Philipp von Wrede…
- Battle of CraonneOn the 22nd of February 1814, Austrian field marshal Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg commanded nearly 150,000 Allied troops against Napoleon's half…
- Battle of BrienneIn November 1813, the 70,000 French survivors of the disastrous German Campaign crossed to the west bank of the Rhine River.
- Campaign in north-east France (1814)The destruction of Napoleon's Grande Armée during the Russian Campaign in 1813 created a power vacuum that Prussia and Austria could not ignore.
- Campaign in south-west France (1814)In July 1813 Marshal Soult began a counter-offensive that defeated the Allies at the Battle of Maya and the Battle of Roncesvalles.
- War of the Sixth CoalitionIn June 1812, Napoleon crossed the Neman river with an army of 650,000 men. Roughly half were French soldiers, while the rest came from allied or subject…
- Battle of Paris (1814)On the 20th of December 1813, the Army of Bohemia crossed the upper Rhine near Basel. This marked the beginning of a coordinated invasion into France by…