Battle of Champaubert
Part of the War of the Sixth Coalition
Date February 10, 1814 Location Champaubert, east of Paris. Result Decisive French victory
Combatants
French Empire	Prussia, Russian Empire
Commanders
Napoleon I, Auguste Marmont	General Olsufiev
Strength
30,000 120 guns	5,000
Casualties
300	3,000

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The battle of Champaubert was one of the few times during the Napoleonic wars when France was able to take to the field with a considerable numerical advantage.

Napoleon Bonaparte moved against an over-extended Prussian army in the hope of whittling it down by a series of battles. On 10 February, he caught General Olussiev's five thousand Russians just south of Champaubert, a town located in the valley of the Marne, east of Paris.

French strength consisted of 30,000 hungry and tired men, including many raw conscripts, and 120 cannons^[1]. The French, nonetheless, enjoyed a six-to-one advantage. They were commanded in the field by the marshal, Auguste Marmont, under the direction of Napoleon himself. Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, Marshal of France. ...

Badly outnumbered, Olsufiev decided to fight rather than retreat. His decision was based on the mistaken hope that he would get reinforcements from Field Marshal Blücher in time to prevent a disaster. He was wrong, and Marmont crushed him.

After five hours of fighting, the Russians were surrounded by French cavalry. They suffered three thousand killed, wounded, and captured. One of the prisoners was Olsufiev himself, who dined that very evening with Napoleon.

The French lost about three hundred men, among whom was General Lagrange.

Footnotes

1. ^ Chandler, David. Dictionary of the Napoleonic wars. Wordsworth editions, 1999. pg.87.

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