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War of the Seventh Coalition

The Hundred Days, also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, marked the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France’s return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII … Continue reading

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Battle of Waterloo

The Battlefield at Waterloo is small, only 3 miles east/west and 1 1/2 miles deep on which massed nearly 70,000 allies and 71,000 French troops. Wellington had chosen his ground carefully since he had seen the battlefield previously. He deployed … Continue reading

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Battle of Wavre

In the afternoon of 18 June 1815, while Napoleon Bonaparte was fighting his last battle on the fields of Waterloo, Marshal Grouchy fought Thielmann’s Prussian army corps near the village of Wavre. The victory was his, but it meant nothing … Continue reading

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Defence of France & Six Days Campaign (1814)

In January 1814 the French army was again on home soil after the defeats of 1812 and 1813. 73,000 men were lost as a direct result of Leipzig and Napoleon was obliged to leave another 100,000 troops in garrisons in … Continue reading

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Battle of Hanau

The Battle of Hanau was fought on (30 – 31 October 1813) between Karl Philipp von Wrede’s Austro-Bavarian corps and Napoleon’s retreating French during the War of the Sixth Coalition. Following Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Leipzig earlier in … Continue reading

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Battle of Leipzig

The Battle of Leipzig (16-19 Oct 1813, also known as Battle of the Nations) was the largest battle of the Napoleonic wars and the largest battle in Europe until the First World War easily ranking as one of the largest … Continue reading

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Battle of Lutzen

In the Battle of Lützen (May 2, 1813), Napoleon lured a combined Prussian  and Russian force into a trap, halting the advances of the Sixth Coalition after his devastating losses in Russia. The Russian commander, Prince Peter Wittgenstein, attempting to … Continue reading

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Battle of Berezina

The Battle of Berezina (or Beresina) took place November 26–29, 1812 between the French army of Napoleon, withdrawing after his invasion of Russia and crossing the Berezina (near Borisov, Belarus), and the Russian armies under Mikhail Kutuzov, Peter Wittgenstein and … Continue reading

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Peninsular War (1807-14)

What Napoleon planned to be a minor campaign resulted in one of the key areas of conflict in the Napoleonic Wars. After a few unsuccessful attempts to bring the war to Napoleon on mainland Europe, the Peninsular was to prove … Continue reading

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Battle of Ulm

The Battle of Ulm (October 16–19, 1805) was a series of minor skirmishes at the end of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Ulm Campaign, culminating in the surrender of an entire Austrian army near Ulm in Württemberg.  Less of a battle and more … Continue reading

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