✦ History

Part of Napoleonic Wars, Campaign in north-east France (1814)

Battle of Laon (1814)

March 9–10, 1814 · Battle of Laon (1814)

Result Coalition victory

Blücher held Laon against Napoleon and routed Marmont's corps in a night attack.

On the map Contemporaries

French Empire and allies

Coalition

France
Kingdom of Prussia
Russian Empire
Napoleon military commander Michel Ney military commander Auguste de Marmont military commander
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher military commander August Neidhardt von Gneisenau military commander Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
47,000–54,000c. 50,000
Casualties
6,000–7,500c. 6,500
Captured
c. 2,500
Guns
260c. 260
Guns lost
c. 45
Strength
85,000–100,000c. 100,000
Casualties
3,500–4,000c. 3,500
Guns
480c. 480

Units

French army in the Campaign of France (1814) Marmont's and Mortier's corps (1814)

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