Napoleon faced the combined might of the Sixth Coalition (Russia, Austria, Prussia, Sweden) near Leipzig, in what would prove to be the decisive battle of his career. Outnumbered, virtually encircled, ...

Um sein Empire zu retten, bezog Napoleon I. im Oktober 1813 eine feste Stellung bei Leipzig. Dort wollte er seine Gegner einzeln schlagen. Aber Fehler und Zufälle machten die folgende ...

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 ...