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1814 Campagne de France. Jean-Louis-Ernest MEISSONIER, Musée d’Orsay. The third action of the Six Days campaign in eastern France, the Battle of Chateau-Thierry, resulted in a victory for Napoleon’s troops over the Prussians and Russians under generals Johann Graf Yorck von Wartenburg and Dmitry Osten-Sacken, respectively, as well as the continuation of French momentum against […]

Prussian Guard sharpen swords on the steps of the French embassy in 1806 at Berlin. Picture by Myrbach. In the summer of 1806 Europe was temporarily more or less at peace, or, at least, experiencing a period of ‘phoney war’. Technically speaking, both Britain and Russia remained at war with France, and there was some […]