Napoleon Bonaparte Jean-de-Dieu Soult Emmanuel de Grouchy Antoine Drouot Dominique Vandamme Étienne Maurice Gérard
Gebhard von Blücher (WIA) Graf von Gneisenau Graf von Zieten Ludwig von Pirch Johann von Thielmann
Strength
62,882[1][a] 210 cannons[4]
83,417[1][b] 224 cannons[4]
Casualties and losses
8,300–12,000 killed, wounded or captured[c]
16,000 killed or wounded[4] 8,000 captured or missing[4] 21 guns lost[6]
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Hundred Days
Waterloo campaign
Gilly
Quatre Bras
Ligny
1st Genappe
Waterloo
Wavre
2nd Genappe
Namur
Cambrai
Villers-Cotterêts
Aubervilliers
Saint-Denis
Rocquencourt
Sèvres
Issy
Minor campaigns
Rocheserviere
La Suffel
Reduction of the French fortresses
Caribbean
Guadeloupe
Chronology
15 June
16–17 June
17–18 June
18–24 June
25 June – 1 July
2–7 July
Hundred Days: Waterloo campaign
500km 300miles
Saint Helena
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Rochefort
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Waterloo
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Paris
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Elba
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current battle
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The Battle of Ligny, in which French troops of the Armée du Nord under the command of Napoleon I defeated part of a Prussian army under Field Marshal Blücher, was fought on 16 June 1815 near Ligny in what is now Belgium. The result was a tactical victory for the French, but the bulk of the Prussian army survived the battle in good order, was reinforced by Prussian troops who had not fought at Ligny, and played a role two days later at the Battle of Waterloo. The Battle of Ligny was the last victory in Napoleon's military career.
^ abcLeggiere 2016, p. 370.
^ abChandler 2009, p. 1044.
^ abPigeard 2004, p. 475.
^ abcdefgClodfelter 2008, p. 183.
^Hussey 2017, p. 539.
^ abRothenberg 1978, p. 253.
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