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Napoleonic Wars, The (4) - The Fall of the French Empire 1813-1815

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Essential Histories - 1500 - 1900 A.D.

Last Stocked on 2/26/2022

Product Info

Title
Napoleonic Wars, The (4) - The Fall of the French Empire 1813-1815
Publisher
Category
Author
Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publish Year
2002
Pages
96
Dimensions
6.75x9.75x.25"
NKG Part #
2147564861
MFG. Part #
OSPESS039
Type
Softcover

Description

This volume covers Napoleon's gradual fall from power, beginning in the spring of 1813, when France prepared to face the vengeance of Russia and Prussia. quickly raising new armies composed of inexperienced conscripts and invalided veterans, and with a critical shortage of cavalry, Napoleon resolved to preserve his empire in Germany, where he initially managed to achieve some hard-fought victories. When at last Austria threw in her lot with the Allies and the epic Battle of Leipzig followed, Napoleon was forced to retreat across the Rhine, there to resist the onslaught on home soil. The pressure against him proved too great, and with Paris lost and his marshals refusing to fight on, no option remained but abdication. Yet his last battle, and one of the most decisive in military history, was still to come: Waterloo.