The allied invasion of France, 1813-1814
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The allied invasion of France, 1813-1814
(Cambridge military histories / edited by Hew Strachan, Geoffrey Wawro, . The fall of Napoleon ; v. 1)
Cambridge University Press, 2014, c2007
1st pbk. ed
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Originally published: 2007
Includes bibliographical references (p. 573-582) and index
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Description
This book tells the story of the invasion of France at the twilight of Napoleon's empire. With more than a million men under arms throughout central Europe, Coalition forces poured over the Rhine River to invade France between late November 1813 and early January 1814. Three principal army groups drove across the great German landmark, smashing the exhausted French forces that attempted to defend the eastern frontier. In less than a month, French forces ingloriously retreated from the Rhine to the Marne; Allied forces were within one week of reaching Paris. This book provides the first complete English-language study of the invasion of France along a front that extended from Holland to Switzerland.
Table of Contents
- 1. The new Charlemagne
- 2. Barbarians at the gate
- 3. The Frankfurt proposals
- 4. Napoleon and the French
- 5. The left bank
- 6. The right bank
- 7. The lower Rhine
- 8. The upper Rhine
- 9. The middle Rhine
- 10. Alsace and Franche-Comte
- 11. The Vosges and the Saone
- 12. Lorraine
- 13. The Saar and the Moselle
- 14. Belgium
- 15. The Marne
- 16. The Aube, Bourgogne, and the Rhone
- 17. The protocols of Langres.
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