Six Days Campaign | |||||||
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Part of the 1814 campaign in north-east France | |||||||
Napoleon I and his staff |
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Belligerents | |||||||
First French Empire | Russian Empire | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Napoleon I of France |
Gebhard von Blücher Zakhar Olsufiev |
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Strength | |||||||
30,000 |
330,000
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
3,400 | 17,750 |
330,000
The Six Days Campaign (10–15 February 1814) was a final series of victories by the forces of Napoleon I of France as the Sixth Coalition closed in on Paris.
The Six Days Campaign was fought from 10 February to 15 February during which time Napoleon inflicted four defeats on Blücher's army in the Battle of Champaubert, the Battle of Montmirail, the Battle of Château-Thierry, and the Battle of Vauchamps. Napoleon managed to inflict 17,750 casualties on Blücher's force of 70,000 with his 40,000-man army.
By the start of 1814 the Sixth Coalition had defeated the French both in Germany (see German Campaign of 1813 ) and in Spain (see Peninsular War § End of the war in Spain, 1813–1814, and were poised to invade France from the North East and South West.