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The Battle of Paris (or the Storming of Paris [2]) was fought on 30–31 March 1814 between the Sixth Coalition, consisting of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, and the French Empire. After a day of fighting in the suburbs of Paris, the French surrendered on 31 March, ending the War of the Sixth Coalition and forcing Emperor Napoleon to abdicate ...
Obrona Paryża – oblężenie, które miało miejsce w końcowym okresie wojen napoleońskich wiosną roku 1814. Francuska przegrana i w konsekwencji zajęcie stolicy Francji przez wojska VI koalicji, przyspieszyło abdykację cesarza Napoleona I.
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.
Napoleon stopped the advance on Paris at Mormant on 17 February. It caused Schwarzenberg to order a retreat. Schwarzenberg left Frederick I of Württemberg, to command a rearguard at Montereau, which was located at the confluence of the Rivers Seine and Yonne. Napoleon crushed the enemy at Montereau.
Long dissociated from one another in the historiography, the campaigns of Russia (1812) and France (1814) were two intrinsically linked events that gave rise to troop and population movements of unprecedented scope for the early nineteenth century.
30 March-31 March - Battle of Paris, decisive victory for Austria/Russia/Prussia. 31 March - Paris is occupied by Austrian and Prussian forces. 6 April - Napoleon abdicates.
In January 1814, as the coalition troops advanced “like a torrent on the capital” (according to the architect Pierre-François Fontaine), Napoleon was forced to start a campaign on French soil, to the north east of Paris.
