What happened when Napoleon faced the full force of the Sixth Coalition at Leipzig in October 1813? In the largest and bloodiest European battle before WWI, his high-risk strategy against ...

Frankreichs Kaiser Napoleon erleidet eine Niederlage, die seine Hegemonie in Europa beendet. Es sind Bilder des Schreckens und der Verwüstung, die Leipzig am 19. Oktober 1813 prägen: Verwundete ...

And this worked. In the fall of 1813, the Allies caught Napoleon at Leipzig where they outnumbered him two to one and punished his armies in a bruising battle that lasted three days. Napoleon ...

When Napoleon was defeated (firstly at Leipzig in 1813 and then at Waterloo in 1815), the German princes broke this promise. The German princes did not feel long-lasting reform was necessary for ...