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| Alliance Murat |  |
| 11th Jan Naples Murat deserts Napoleon for the Allies |
| Alliance Napoleon I | |
| 11th Jan Naples Murat deserts Napoleon for the Allies |
| Armistice Napoleon I | |
| 2nd June Pleischwitz The armistice of Pleischwitz |
| Battle of Bautzen Napoleon I | |
| 20th May Bautzen Follows Napoleon's capture of Dresden |
| 20th May Bautzen Wishes to inflict a defeat on Prussia for deserting his cause |
| Battle of Bautzen Ney, Michel | |
| 20th May Bautzen Helps Napoleon defeat a combinec force of Prussians & Russians |
| Battle of Bautzen Soult, Nicolas-Jean de Dieu | |
| 20th May Bautzen Helps Napoleon defeat a combinec force of Prussians & Russians |
| Battle of Dennewitz Ney | |
| 6th Sep Dennewitz Attempts to capture Berlin but is defeated |
| Battle of Dresden Napoleon I | |
| 26th Aug Dresden French victory against the Prussians & Russians |
| 26th Aug Dresden The French lose 10,000 & the Allies 38,000 |
| Battle of Hanau Napoleon I | |
| 30th Oct Hanau Retreats from Leipzig & battles through an Austrian-Bavarian force |
| Battle of Leipzig Napoleon I | |
| 2nd May Leipzig Napoleon flees into the city having lost 60,000 men |
| 2nd May Leipzig Reinforcements fail to arrive & the Saxons change sides |
| 2nd May Leipzig The Confederation dissolves after Napoleon's defeat at Leipzig |
| Oct Leipzig Defeated by the Fourth Coalition |
| Oct Leipzig Napoleon arranges his army around Leipzig, but concentrates his force from Taucha through Sttteritz (where Napoleon placed his command), The Prussians advance from Wartenburg, the Austrians & Russians from Dresden & the Swedish force from the north |
| 16th Oct Leipzig In total, the French have around 190,000 soldiers and the Allies almost 330,000 with both sides having significant artillery, there were over two and a half thousand pieces of ordnance on the field |
| 16th Oct Leipzig The allied offensives achieve little and are soon forced back, but Napoleon's outnumbered forces are unable to break the allied lines, resulting in a hard fought stalemate |
| 16th Oct Leipzig The battle beginswith an attack by 78,000 Allied troops from the south and 54,000 from the north, with Napoleon using the bulk of his army in the south |
| 18th Oct Leipzig The 6th Coalition is arranged with Field Marshal Blcher (Prussian) & Crown Prince Carl Johan of Sweden to the north, Generals Barclay De Tolly, Bennigsen (Russian) & Prince von Hessen-Homburg (Austrian) to the south & Gyulay (Austrian) to the north |
| 18th Oct Leipzig The Allies launch a huge assault from all sides, in over nine hours of fighting, in which both sides suffer heavy casualties, the French troops prevent a breakthrough but are slowly forced back towards Leipzig |
| 19th Oct Leipzig During the fighting, 5,400 Saxons of Jean Reynier's VII Corps defect to the Allies, Napoleon sees that the battle is a lost cause and on the night of the 18th-19th he begins to withdraw the majority of his army across the river Elster |
| Battle of Leipzig Reynier, Jean | |
| 19th Oct Leipzig During the fighting, 5,400 Saxons of Jean Reynier's VII Corps defect to the Allies, Napoleon sees that the battle is a lost cause and on the night of the 18th-19th he begins to withdraw the majority of his army across the river Elster |
| Battle of Lutzen Napoleon I | |
| 20th May Lutzen A technical victory because Wittgenstein retreats into Silesia |
| 20th May Lutzen Napoleon breaks through Wittgenstein's centre |
| 20th May Lutzen Napoleons Army of 110,000 defeat the Allied Army of 73,000 |
| 20th May Lutzen The French lose 25,000 to the Allies' 11,000 |
| 20th May Lutzen The Russians & Prussians are driven from the east bank of the Spree |
| 20th May Lutzen Wittgenstein is allowed to retreat because of Ney's late attack |
| Battle of Vitoria Napoleon I | |
| 21st June Vitoria The decisive victory by Wellington in the Peninsular War |
| 21st June Vitoria The French are defeated by Wellington & Joseph is forced to retreat over the Pyrenees |
| Battle of Vittorio Bonaparte | |
| 13th June Burgos Joseph blows up Burgos while retreating from Wellington's forces |
| 17th June River Zadorra Establishes a 3 line defensive formation of 57,000 behind the River Zadorra |
| 21st June Vittorio Manages to get 55,000 French back into France over the Pyrenees |
| 21st June Vittorio Wellington forces the French across the Pyrenees |
| Battle of Wartenberg Napoleon I | |
| 8th Oct Wartenberg Blucher defeats Bertrand |
| Colonel Suchet | |
| Nov Appointed Colonel General of the Imperial Guard |
| Concordat Papacy Napoleon I | |
| 25th Jan Pius VII signs a concordat with Napoleon |
| Declaration of War Napoleon I | |
| 16th Mar Prussia declares war on France |
| 13th Aug Austria declares war on France |
| 18th Oct Bavaria Bavaria joins the Allies |
| 18th Oct Saxony Saxony joins the Allies |
| Evacuation Madrid Napoleon I | |
| 12th June Madrid The French evacuate Madrid |
| Evacuation Tarragonna Napoleon I | |
| 25th Aug Tarragonna Suchet evacuates Tarragonna |
| Governor Catalonia Suchet | |
| Catalonia Appointed Governor of Catalania, November |
| Invasion of Silesia Napoleon I | |
| 4th Sep Silesia Advances into Silesia to engage Blucher but Blucher retreats |
| Rule of Danzig Napoleon I | |
| 29th Nov Danzig The French surrender the city of Danzig to Russians |
| Siege of Berlin Napoleon I | |
| Berlin Marshal Nicolas Oudinot fails to capture Berlin with his army of 120,000 and Napoleon is forced to withdraw westwards due to the threat to the north, crossing the Elbe in late September and organizing his forces around Leipzig |
| Siege of Berlin Oudinot, Nicolas | |
| Berlin Marshal Nicolas Oudinot fails to capture Berlin with his army of 120,000 and Napoleon is forced to withdraw westwards due to the threat to the north, crossing the Elbe in late September and organizing his forces around Leipzig |
| Siege of Danzig Napoleon I | |
| 29th Nov Danzig The French surrender the city of Danzig to Russians |
| Siege of Hamburg Napoleon I | |
| 30th May Hamburg 1st day of the siege of Hamburg |
| Siege of Pamplona Napoleon I | |
| 22nd June Pamplona 1st day of the siege of Pamplona |
| Siege of San Sebastian Napoleon I | |
| 27th June San Sebastian 1st day of the siege of San Sebastian |
| 25th July San Sebastian Failure to storm San Sebastian |
| 31st Aug San Sebastian San Sebastian falls |
| Siege of San Sebastian Ray, Emanuel | |
| 25th July San Sebastian 1st day of Wellington's siege of San Sebastian |
| Siege of Tarragona Suchet | |
| Tarragona June, succesfully releives the siege of Tarragona |
| Siege of Torgau Napoleon I | |
| 10th Mar Torgau 1st day of the siege of Torgau |
| 11th May Torgau The fall of Torgau |
| 4th Oct Torgau 1st day of the 2nd siege of Torgau |
| 30th Oct Torgau The fall of Torgau |
| Treaty of Ried Napoleon I | |
| 8th Oct Ried Bavaria leaves the Rhine Confederation & joins the Alliance against France |
