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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.
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.
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.
The Battle of Paris was fought on March 30–31, 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 March 31, ending the War of the Sixth Coalition and forcing Emperor Napoleon to abdicate and go into exile.
30-31 March 1814. No hostile army had reached Paris for 400 Years. When the Allied troops reached the city in March 1814, some Russians joyfully shouted "Paris ! Paris !", breaking their ranks and pressing forward to see the glorious city. . Russian infantry storming the Montmartre Heights. Battle of Paris 1814. Picture by Oleg Parkhaiev.
In the War of the Sixth Coalition (French: Guerre de la Sixième Coalition) (December 1812 – May 1814), sometimes known in Germany as the Wars of Liberation (German: Befreiungskriege), a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Spain, Great Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Sardinia, and a number of German States defeated France and drove Napoleon ...
