Part of the Napoleonic Wars and the Coalition Wars
War of the Sixth Coalition
Each image links to a battle. Left to right, top to bottom: Battles of Lutzen, Katzbach, Dresden, Kulm, Leipzig, Hanau, Rothière, Laubressel, Laon, Arcis, Champenoise, Paris
Date
3 March 1813 – 30 May 1814 (1 year, 2 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
Location
Central and Eastern Europe, the Low Countries, France
Result
Coalition victory
End of Napoleon’s empire
Napoleon sent into exile
Belligerents
Original coalition
Russia
Prussia
Spain
United Kingdom
Hanover
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Portugal
Sardinia
Sicily
Sweden
After the Armistice of Pläswitz
Austria
Bavaria
After the Battle of Leipzig
Baden
Liechtenstein
Saxony
Württemberg
After 20 November 1813
Netherlands
After January 1814
Denmark
France
Duchy of Warsaw[note 1]
Italy
Naples
Until January 1814
Confederation of the Rhine (many member states defected after Battle of Leipzig)
Denmark–Norway
Co-belligerent:
United States
(War of 1812 only)
Commanders and leaders
Alexander I
Frederick William III
Francis I
Maximilian I Joseph
Frederick Francis I
Frederick Augustus
Frederick I
William I of Orange-Nassau
Crown Prince Charles John
Ferdinand VII
George III
Robert Jenkinson
Arthur Wellesley
Napoleon I
Joachim Murat
Eugène de Beauharnais
Józef Poniatowski †
Strength
1813: 1,070,000
1813: 850,000
Casualties and losses
526,000
German Campaign: 360,000[1]
French Campaign: 166,000[2]
610,000
German Campaign: 460,000[1]
French Campaign: 150,000[2]
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War of the Sixth Coalition
German campaign
Danzig
Möckern
Lützen
Bautzen
Haynau
Luckau
Großbeeren
Katzbach
1st Dresden
Hagelberg
Kulm
Dennewitz
Göhrde
2nd Kulm
Altenburg
Rosslau
Wartenburg
2nd Dresden
Leipzig
Torgau
Hanau
Mainz
Bornhöved
Sehested
Hamburg
Campaign in north-east France
Metz
1st Bar-sur-Aube
Brienne
La Rothière
Lesmont
Six Days' Campaign
Champaubert
Montmirail
Château-Thierry
Vauchamps
Mormant
Montereau
2nd Bar-sur-Aube
Gué-à-Tresmes
Saint-Julien
Laubressel
Craonne
Laon
Mâcon
Reims
Limonest
Arcis-sur-Aube
Fère-Champenoise
Saint-Dizier
Paris
Campaign in south-west France
Bidassoa
Nivelle
Nive
Garris
Orthez
Toulouse
Bayonne
Illyrian campaign
Lippa
Zara
Cattaro
Ragusa
Italian campaign
Feistritz
Caldiero
Mincio
Genoa
Low Countries campaign
Delfzijl
Naarden
Woerden
Arnhem
Breda
Hoogstraten
Antwerp
Maastricht
Bergen-op-Zoom
Courtrai
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Napoleonic Wars
Third Coalition
Anglo-Spanish War
Russo-Persian War
Franco-Swedish War
Fourth Coalition
Russo-Turkish War
First Serbian Uprising
English Wars
Gunboat War
Dano-Swedish War
Finnish War
Anglo-Turkish War
Peninsular War
Anglo-Russian War
Fifth Coalition
Austro-Polish War
Anglo-Swedish War
War of 1812
French invasion of Russia
Sixth Coalition
Swedish-Norwegian War
Seventh Coalition
Neapolitan War
Waterloo campaign
Minor campaigns of 1815
Linois's expedition to the Indian Ocean
West Indies campaign
British conquest of Cape Town
Second Archipelago Expedition
Adriatic campaign
1st Java
British invasions of the River Plate
Spice Islands
Indian Ocean
2nd Java
Portuguese invasion of the Banda Oriental (1811–1812)
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Polish–Swedish wars
1563-1568
Sigismund
1600–1611
1617–1618
1621–1625
1626–1629
2nd Northern
(Deluge)
Great Northern
War of the Fourth Coalition
War of the Sixth Coalition
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German–Polish Wars
Holy Roman Empire
963
967
972
979
1003-1018
1028-1031
1074
1109
1146
1157
1184
1278
Brandenburg
1247-1252
1265-1278
1269-1272
1296
1311-1312
1316
1326-1329
1370
1476-1482
1656-1657
Teutonic Order
1308
1326–1332
1409–1411
1414
1419
1422
1431–1435
1454–1466
1467–1479
1519–1521
Prussia
1733-1735
1792-1797
1795
1806-1807
1813-1814
1846
1848
1914-1918
Weimar Republic
1918-1919
1919
1919-1921
1919-1934
Nazi Germany
1939
1939-1945
1943-1945
1944-1949
Napoleonic Wars
1000km 620miles
Waterloo
9
France
8
7
Russia
6
Austria
5
Spain
4
Portugal
3
Prussia
2
Germany
1
Key:
1
Third Coalition: Germany 1803:...Austerlitz...
2
Fourth Coalition: Prussia 1806:...Jena...
3
Peninsular War: Portugal 1807...Torres Vedras...
4
Peninsular War: Spain 1808...Vitoria...
5
Fifth Coalition: Austria 1809:...Wagram...
6
French invasion of Russia 1812:...Moscow...
7
Sixth Coalition: Germany 1813:...Leipzig...
8
Sixth Coalition: France 1814:...Paris...
9
Hundred Days 1815:...Waterloo...
In the War of the Sixth Coalition (French: Guerre de la Sixième Coalition) (March 1813 – May 1814), sometimes known in Germany as the Wars of Liberation (German: Befreiungskriege), a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Spain, Great Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Sardinia, and a number of German States defeated France and drove Napoleon into exile on Elba. After the disastrous French invasion of Russia of 1812 in which they had been forced to support France, Prussia and Austria joined Russia, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Portugal, and the rebels in Spain who were already at war with France.
The War of the Sixth Coalition saw major battles at Lützen, Bautzen, and Dresden. The even larger Battle of Leipzig (also known as the Battle of Nations) was the largest battle in European history before World War I. Ultimately, Napoleon's earlier setbacks in Spain, Portugal and Russia proved to be the seeds of his undoing. With their armies reorganized, the allies drove Napoleon out of Germany in 1813 and invaded France in 1814. The Allies defeated the remaining French armies, occupied Paris, and forced Napoleon to abdicate and go into exile. The French monarchy was revived by the allies, who handed rule to the heir of the House of Bourbon in the Bourbon Restoration.
The "Hundred Days" War of the Seventh Coalition was triggered in 1815 when Napoleon escaped from his captivity on Elba and returned to power in France. He was defeated again for the final time at Waterloo, ending the Napoleonic Wars.
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^ abClodfelter 2008, p. 178.
^ abClodfelter 2008, p. 180.
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