Campaign in north-east France (1814)

Campaign in north-east France (1814)
	Part of the War of the Sixth Coalition
	; Click an image to load the battle.; Left to right, top to bottom:; La Rothière, Laubressel, Laon, Arcis-sur-Aube, Fère-Champenoise, Paris
Date	January—March 1814
Location	North-East French Empire
Result	Coalition victory; See Aftermath
Belligerents
France	Russia; Austria; United Kingdom; Prussia; Baden; Bavaria; Netherlands; Saxony ; Württemberg
Commanders and leaders
Napoleon; Louis-Alexandre Berthier; Pierre Augereau; François Joseph Lefebvre; Jacques MacDonald; Auguste de Marmont ; Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey; Édouard Mortier; Michel Ney; Nicolas Oudinot; Claude Victor-Perrin; Emmanuel Grouchy; Etienne Maurice Gerard	Alexander I; Lord Robert Stewart; Francis I; Karl von Schwarzenberg; Frederick William III; Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher; Friedrich Wilhelm von Bülow; Barclay de Tolly; Ferdinand von Wintzingerode; Peter Wittgenstein; Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev; Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken; Karl Philipp von Wrede
Strength
71,012	370,000–405,000

War of the Sixth Coalition:
Campaign in north-east France

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Napoleon in command

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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. Despite the disproportionate forces in favour of the Coalition, Napoleon managed to inflict several defeats, the Six Days' Campaign being the most well-known. However, the campaign ended in total defeat for Napoleon as the Coalition kept advancing towards Paris. Napoleon was out of position to defend the capital, which capitulated in late March 1814. When Napoleon proposed the army march on Paris, his Marshals decided to unanimously overrule Napoleon in order to save the city from further destruction. As a result, the victorious Coalition negotiated the Treaty of Paris, under which Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba and the borders of France were returned to where they had been in 1792.