La Bataille de Bautzen 1813

David’s Napoleon In His Study At The Tuileries (1812)

1813–Napoleon’s Magic Mobilization

Certainly one of Napoleon’s greatest military and political achievements in his entire career was the rebuilding of his La Grande Armée in 1813 in just three months. From the end of the Russian campaign, to Napoleon’s arrival in Erfurt in Central Germany on April 25 to take overall command of the French forces in Germany, the Emperor rebuilt what had been destroyed in Russia and maintained a strong political consensus in France to do so.

La Bataille de Bautzen 1813

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