Napoleon's Letters To Josephine Part 64

_January 1st._--Capitulation of Danzic, which General Rapp had defended for nearly a year, having lost 20,000 (out of 30,000) men by fever. Russians, who had promised to send the French home, break faith, following the example of Schwartzenberg at Dresden.

_January 2nd._--Russians take Fort Louis (Lower Rhine); and

_January 3rd._--Austrians Montbeliard; and Bavarians Colmar.

_January 6th._--General York occupies Treves. Convention between Murat and England and (January 11th) with Austria. Murat is to join Allies with 30,000 men.

_January 7th._--Austrians occupy Vesoul.

_January 8th._--French Rentes 5 per cents. at 47.50. Wurtemberg troops occupy Epinal.

_January 10th._--General York reaches Forbach (on the Moselle).

_January 15th._--Cossacks occupy Cologne.

_January 16th._--Russians occupy Nancy.

_January 19th._--Austrians occupy Dijon; Bavarians, Neufchateau.

Murat's troops occupy Rome.

_January 20th._--Capture of Toul by the Russians; and of Chambery by the Austrians.

_January 21st._--Austrians occupy Chalons-sur-Saone. General York crosses the Meuse.

_January 23rd._--Pope Pius VII. returns to Rome.

_January 25th._--General York and Army of Silesia established at St. Dizier and Joinville on the Marne. Austrians occupy Bar-sur-Aube. _Napoleon leaves Paris; and_

_January 26th.--Reaches Chalons-sur-Marne; and_

_January 27th.--Retakes St. Dizier in person._

_January 29th.--Combat of Brienne. Napoleon defeats Blucher._

_February 1st._--Battle of La Rothiere, six miles north of Brienne. French, 40,000; Allies, 110,000. Drawn battle, but French retreat on Troyes; French evacuate Brussels.

_February 4th._--Eugene retires upon the Mincio.

_February 5th.--Cortes disavow Napoleon's treaty of Valencay with Ferdinand VII._ Opening of Congress of Chatillon. General York occupies Chalons-sur-Marne.

_February 7th._--Allies seize Troyes.

_February 8th._--Battle of the Mincio. Eugene with 30,000 conscripts defeats Austrians under Bellegarde with 50,000 veterans.

_February 10th.--Combat of Champaubert. Napoleon defeats Russians._

_February 11th.--Combat of Montmirail. Napoleon defeats Sacken.

Russians occupy Nogent-sur-Seine; and_

_February 12th.--Laon._

_February 14th.--Napoleon routs Blucher at Vauchamp. His losses, 10,000 men; French loss, 600 men. In five days Napoleon has wiped out the five corps of the Army of Silesia, inflicting a loss of 25,000 men._

_February 17th.--Combat near Nangis. Napoleon defeats Austro-Russians with loss of 10,000 men and 12 cannon._

_February 18th._--Combat of Montereau. Prince Royal of Wurtemberg defeated with loss of 7000.

_February 21st._--Comte d'Artois arrives at Vesoul.

_February 22nd._--Combat of Mery-sur-Seine. Sacken defeated by Boyer's Division, who fight in masks--it being Shrove Tuesday.

_February 24th._--French re-enter Troyes.

_February 27th._--Bulow captures La Fere with large stores. Battle of Orthes (Pyrenees), Wellington with 70,000 defeats Soult entrenched with 38,000. Foy badly wounded.

_February 27th-28th._--Combats of Bar and Ferte-sur-Aube. Marshals Oudinot and Macdonald forced to retire on the Seine.

_March 1st._--Treaty of Chaumont--Allies against Napoleon.

_March 2nd._--Bulow takes Soissons.

_March 4th._--Macdonald evacuates Troyes.

_March 7th.--Battle of Craonne between Napoleon (30,000 men) and Sacken (100,000)._ Indecisive.

_March 9th._--English driven from Berg-op-Zoom.

_March 9th-10th.--Combat under Laon: depot of Allied army.

Napoleon fails to capture it._

_March 12th._--Duc d'Angouleme arrives at Bordeaux. This town is the first to declare for the Bourbons, and to welcome him as Louis XVIII.

_March 13th._--Ferdinand VII. set at liberty.

_March 14th.--Napoleon retakes Rheims from the Russians._

_March 19th._--Rupture of Treaty of Chatillon.

_March 20th._--Battle of Tarbes. Wellington defeats French.

_March 20th-21st._--Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube. Indecisive.

_March 21st._--Austrians enter Lyons. Augereau retires on Valence.

Had Eugene joined him with his 40,000 men he might have saved France after Vauchamp.

_March 25th._--Combat of Fere-Champenoise. Marmont and Mortier defeated with loss of 9000 men.

_March 26th.--Combat of St. Dizier. Napoleon defeats Russians, and starts to save Paris._