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Members of the Sixth Coalition, including the German states of Austria and Prussia, plus Russia and Sweden, fought a series of battles in Germany against the French Emperor Napoleon, his marshals, and the armies of the Confederation of the Rhine – an alliance of most of the other German states –, which ended the domination of the First ...
Napoleon entering Berlin with the Brandenburg Gate in the background. The fall of Berlin took place on 24 October 1806 when the Prussian capital of Berlin was captured by French forces in the aftermath of the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
Napoleon decisively beat the Russian army at Friedland (14 June 1807), following which Alexander had to make peace with Napoleon at Tilsit (7 July 1807). In Germany and Poland, new Napoleonic client states, such as the Kingdom of Westphalia, Duchy of Warsaw, and Republic of Danzig, were established.
28 wrz 2023 · On 8 October 1813, the Kingdom of Bavaria, once Napoleon's staunchest German ally, switched sides and joined the Sixth Coalition, with several other German states following suit. With the defection of Bavaria, Napoleon found his empire had begun to disintegrate before his very eyes.
2 dni temu · The Strategic Situation: Napoleon’s Empire on the Brink. Napoleon’s position in 1813 was precarious. After his disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia, his once-mighty Grand Armée had been reduced to a fraction of its former size. Only about 10,000 men of the 600,000-strong force that invaded Russia returned to friendly territory.
This is the first comprehensive history of the campaign that determined control of Germany following Napoleon's catastrophic defeat in Russia. Michael V. Leggiere reveals how, in the spring of 1813, Prussia, the weakest of the great powers, led the struggle against Napoleon as a war of national liberation.
4 wrz 2023 · The War of the Sixth Coalition (1813-1814) was the penultimate conflict of the Napoleonic Wars that saw Russia, Prussia, Austria, Britain, Sweden, and several German states band together to defeat Napoleon and drive him into exile on Elba.
