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Germany - The Leipzig Campaign - Situation 13 October and Movements since 9 October 1813
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1813-10-10/1813-10-13
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The Battle of Leipzig, contemporaneously called the Battle of Leipsic[6][7][8] (French: Bataille de Leipsick; German: Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig (German: [ˈfœlkɐˌʃlaxt baɪ̯ ˈlaɪ̯pt͡sɪç] (About this soundlisten)); Swedish: Slaget vid Leipzig) and later the Battle of the Nations (French: Bataille des Nations; Russian: Битва народов, Bitva narodov), was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813 at Leipzig, Saxony. The Coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, led by Tsar Alexander I and Karl von Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the Grande Armée of French Emperor Napoleon I. Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops, as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine (mainly Saxony and Württemberg). The battle was the culmination of the German Campaign of 1813 and involved 500,000 soldiers, 2,200 artillery pieces, the expenditure of 200,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, and 127,000 casualties, making it the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I.
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