✦ History

War of the Sixth Coalition

1813 – 1814

Result Coalition victory

Russia, Prussia, Austria, Britain, Sweden and others fought Napoleon after his defeat in Russia. The coalition won at Leipzig, took Paris and forced Napoleon to abdicate.

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Battles and events 12

1813 – 1814
German campaign of 1813 Coalition victory Germany George IV, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Alexander I of Russia
January 1813 – December 1813
Siege of Danzig (1813) Russo–Prussian victory Gdańsk Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1771–1833), Matvey Ivanovich Platov
1813
Battle of Arnhem (1813) Prussian victory Arnhem Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz
February 28, 1813
Treaty of Kalisz (1813) Kalisz Frederick William III of Prussia
November 21, 1813 – May 4, 1814
Siege of Mainz (1814) Inconclusive Mainz
December 7, 1813
Battle of Bornhöved (1813) Disputed Bornhöved
December 13, 1813
Battle of Sehested Danish victory Sehestedt
January 3 – April 10, 1814
Siege of Metz (1814) French victory Metz Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851)
January 11, 1814
Battle of Hoogstraten Coalition victory Hoogstraten Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz
February 8, 1814
Battle of the Mincio River (1814) Franco-Italian victory Mincio Heinrich Joseph Johann von Bellegarde, Eugène de Beauharnais
March 1, 1814
Treaty of Chaumont
March 5–8, 1814
Siege of Bergen op Zoom (1814) French victory Bergen op Zoom Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch

Key commanders

Coalition 21

George IV belligerent leader Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington belligerent leader Alexander I of Russia belligerent leader Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool belligerent leader Mikhail Kutuzov belligerent leader Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher belligerent leader Frederick William III of Prussia belligerent leader Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor belligerent leader Ferdinand VII belligerent leader Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg belligerent leader Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly belligerent leader Levin August von Bennigsen belligerent leader Charles XIV John belligerent leader Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg belligerent leader William I of the Netherlands belligerent leader Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg belligerent leader Mikhail Miloradovich belligerent leader Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz belligerent leader Carl Philipp von Wrede belligerent leader Frederick Augustus I of Saxony belligerent leader Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria belligerent leader

French Empire and allies 17

Napoleon military commander Joseph Bonaparte belligerent leader Michel Ney belligerent leader Louis-Nicolas Davout belligerent leader Joachim Murat belligerent leader Auguste de Marmont belligerent leader Jean-Baptiste Jourdan belligerent leader Luis Alejandro Berthier belligerent leader Eugène de Beauharnais belligerent leader Jean-de-Dieu Soult belligerent leader Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald military commander Nicolas Oudinot belligerent leader Józef Poniatowski belligerent leader Dominique Vandamme belligerent leader Jérôme Bonaparte belligerent leader Frederick VI of Denmark belligerent leader Jean-Baptiste Bessières military commander

Austrian Empire 1

Heinrich Joseph Johann von Bellegarde military commander

France 1

Eugène de Beauharnais military commander

Russian Empire 18

George IV belligerent leader Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington belligerent leader Alexander I of Russia belligerent leader Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool belligerent leader Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher belligerent leader Frederick William III of Prussia belligerent leader Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor belligerent leader Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg belligerent leader Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly belligerent leader Levin August von Bennigsen belligerent leader Charles XIV John military commander Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg belligerent leader William I of the Netherlands belligerent leader Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg belligerent leader Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz belligerent leader Frederick I of Württemberg belligerent leader Frederick Augustus I of Saxony belligerent leader Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria belligerent leader

First French Empire 15

Napoleon military commander Michel Ney belligerent leader Louis-Nicolas Davout belligerent leader Joachim Murat belligerent leader Auguste de Marmont belligerent leader Pierre Augereau military commander Eugène de Beauharnais belligerent leader Jean-de-Dieu Soult belligerent leader Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald military commander Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier military commander Nicolas Oudinot belligerent leader Józef Poniatowski belligerent leader Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr belligerent leader Jacques Lauriston belligerent leader Jean-Baptiste Bessières military commander

Prussia 5

Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch military commander Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz military commander Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1771–1833) military commander Matvey Ivanovich Platov military commander Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) military commander

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1

Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch military commander