The Napoleonic Wars (4): The fall of the French empire 1813-1815 (Essential Histories 39)

A brief military overview of the period from early 1813 to the Battle of the Nations around Leipzig to Waterloo.
 
Contents
– Introduction
– Chronology
– Background to war: Origins of Prussian and Russian hostility
– Warring sides: Opposing forces
– Outbreak: A bid for revenge
– The fighting: The 'War of German Liberation' and the invasion of France
– Portrait of a soldier: Captain Cavalie Mercer, Royal Horse Artillery
– The world around war: London – splendour and squalor
– Portrait of a civilian: Lord Castlereagh, British Foreign Secretary
– How the war ended: Denouement at Waterloo
– Conclusion and consequences: Europe restored and the Napoleonic legacy
 
Gregory Fremont-Barnes is the author of The French Revolutionary Wars (2001), The Peninsular War (2002), and The Fall of the French Empire, 1813-1815 (2002). He is currently co-editing the four-volume Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War.