Array Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - The Collected Works of Napoleon Bonaparte

October 15th. —Bavarian army secedes and joins the Austrians.

October 16th-19th.—Battles of Leipsic. Allied army 330,000 men ( Schwartzenberg , Bernadotte , Blucher , Beningsen ), Napoleon 175,000. Twenty-six battalions and ten squadrons of Saxon and Wurtemberg men leave Napoleon and turn their guns against the French. Napoleon is not defeated, but determines to retreat. The rearguard (20,000 men) and 200 cannon taken. Poniatowski drowned; Reynier and Lauriston captured.

October 20th. —Blucher made Field-Marshal.

October 23rd. —French army reach Erfurt.

October 30th.—Combat of Hanau. Napoleon defeats Wrede with heavy loss.

October 31st. —Combat and capture of Bassano by Eugène. English capture Pampeluna.

November 2nd.—Napoleon arrives at Mayence (where typhus carries off 40,000 French), and is

November 9th.—At St. Cloud.

November 10th. —Wellington defeats Soult at St. Jean de Luz.

November 11th. —Surrender of Dresden by Gouvion St. Cyr; its French soldiers to return under parole to France. Austrians refuse to ratify the convention, and 1700 officers and 23,000 men remain prisoners of war.

November 14th.—Napoleon addresses the Senate: "All Europe marched with us a year ago; all Europe marches against us to-day. That is because the world's opinion is directed either by France or England."

November 15th. —Eugène defeats Austrians at Caldiero. Senatus-Consultus puts 300,000 conscripts at disposal of government.

November 24th. —Capture of Amsterdam by Prussian General Bulow.

December 1st. —Allies declare at Frankfort that they are at war with the Emperor and not with France.

December 2nd. —Bulow occupies Utrecht. Holland secedes from the French Empire.

December 5th. —Capture of Lubeck by the Swedes, and surrender of Stettin (7000 prisoners), Zamosk (December 22nd), Modlin (December 25th), and Torgau (December 26th, with 10,000 men).

December 8th-13th. —Soult defends the passage of the Nive—costly to both sides. Murat (now hostile to Napoleon) enters Ancona.

December 9th-10th. —French evacuate Breda.

December 11th.—Treaty of Valençay between Napoleon and his prisoner Ferdinand VII., who is to reign over Spain, but not to cede Minorca or Ceuta (now in their power} to the English.

December 15th. —Denmark secedes from French alliance.

December 21st. —Allies, 100,000 strong, cross the Rhine in ten divisions (Bâle to Schaffhausen). Jomini is said to have contributed to this violation of Swiss territory.

December 24th. —Final evacuation of Holland by the French.

December 28th. —Austrians capture Ragusa.

December 31st.—Napoleon, having trouble with his Commons, dissolves the Corps Législatif. Austrians capture Geneva. Blucher crosses the Rhine at Mannheim and Coblentz. Exclusive of Landwehr and levies en masse, there are now a million trained men in arms against Napoleon.

1814.

"The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon was the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of the Peace of Europe, the Emperor Napoleon, faithful to his oath, declares that he renounces, for himself and his heirs, the thrones of France and Italy, and that there is no personal sacrifice, even that of life itself, that he will not be ready to make for the sake of France."—( Act of Abdication. )

January 1st. —Capitulation of Danzic, which General Rapp had defended for nearly a year, having lost 20,000 (out of 30,000) men by fever. Russians, who had promised to send the French home, break faith, following the example of Schwartzenberg at Dresden.

January 2nd. —Russians take Fort Louis (Lower Rhine); and

January 3rd. —Austrians Montbéliard; and Bavarians Colmar.

January 6th. —General York occupies Trèves. Convention between Murat and England and (January 11th) with Austria. Murat is to join Allies with 30,000 men.

January 7th. —Austrians occupy Vesoul.

January 8th. —French Rentes 5 per cents. at 47.50. Wurtemberg troops occupy Epinal.

January 10th. —General York reaches Forbach (on the Moselle).

January 15th. —Cossacks occupy Cologne.

January 16th. —Russians occupy Nancy.

January 19th. —Austrians occupy Dijon; Bavarians, Neufchâteau. Murat's troops occupy Rome.

January 20th. —Capture of Toul by the Russians; and of Chambéry by the Austrians.

January 21st. —Austrians occupy Châlons-sur-Saône. General York crosses the Meuse.

January 23rd. —Pope Pius VII. returns to Rome.

January 25th. —General York and Army of Silesia established at St. Dizier and Joinville on the Marne. Austrians occupy Bar-sur-Aube. Napoleon leaves Paris; and

January 26th.—Reaches Châlons-sur-Marne; and

January 27th.—Retakes St. Dizier in person.

January 29th.—Combat of Brienne. Napoleon defeats Blucher.

February 1st. —Battle of La Rothière, six miles north of Brienne. French, 40,000; Allies, 110,000. Drawn battle, but French retreat on Troyes; French evacuate Brussels.

February 4th. —Eugène retires upon the Mincio.

February 5th.—Cortes disavow Napoleon's treaty of Valençay with Ferdinand VII. Opening of Congress of Châtillon. General York occupies Châlons-sur-Marne.

February 7th. —Allies seize Troyes.

February 8th. —Battle of the Mincio. Eugène with 30,000 conscripts defeats Austrians under Bellegarde with 50,000 veterans.

February 10th.—Combat of Champaubert. Napoleon defeats Russians.

February 11th.—Combat of Montmirail. Napoleon defeats Sacken. Russians occupy Nogent-sur-Seine; and

February 12th.—Laon.

February 14th.—Napoleon routs Blucher at Vauchamp. His losses, 10,000 men; French loss, 600 men. In five days Napoleon has wiped out the five corps of the Army of Silesia, inflicting a loss of 25,000 men.

February 17th.—Combat near Nangis. Napoleon defeats Austro-Russians with loss of 10,000 men and 12 cannon.

February 18th. —Combat of Montereau. Prince Royal of Wurtemberg defeated with loss of 7000.

February 21st. —Comte d'Artois arrives at Vesoul.

February 22nd. —Combat of Méry-sur-Seine. Sacken defeated by Boyer's Division, who fight in masks—it being Shrove Tuesday.

February 24th. —French re-enter Troyes.

February 27th. —Bulow captures La Fère with large stores. Battle of Orthes (Pyrenees), Wellington with 70,000 defeats Soult entrenched with 38,000. Foy badly wounded.

February 27th-28th. —Combats of Bar and Ferté-sur-Aube. Marshals Oudinot and Macdonald forced to retire on the Seine.

March 1st. —Treaty of Chaumont—Allies against Napoleon.

March 2nd. —Bulow takes Soissons.

March 4th. —Macdonald evacuates Troyes.

March 7th.—Battle of Craonne between Napoleon (30,000 men) and Sacken (100,000). Indecisive.

March 9th. —English driven from Berg-op-Zoom.

March 9th-10th.—Combat under Laon: depôt of Allied army. Napoleon fails to capture it.

March 12th. —Duc d'Angoulême arrives at Bordeaux. This town is the first to declare for the Bourbons, and to welcome him as Louis XVIII.

March 13th. —Ferdinand VII. set at liberty.