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Six Days' Campaign

Six Days Campaign
Part of the 1814 campaign in north-east France
Meissonier - 1814, Campagne de France.jpg
Napoleon I and his staff
Date 10–15 February 1814
Location Northeastern France
Result Tactical French victory; Strategically indecisive
Belligerents
France First French Empire

Kingdom of Prussia Prussia
Austrian Empire Austrian Empire

Russia Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Napoleon I of France Gebhard von Blücher
Zakhar Olsufiev
Strength
30,000

330,000

  • 120,000 under Blucher
  • 150,000 under Schwarzenberg
  • 60,000 in the Low Countries
Casualties and losses
3,400 17,750

Kingdom of Prussia Prussia
Austrian Empire Austrian Empire

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.


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