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| 1813 | Napoleon I |  |
| 2nd May Leipzig Napoleon flees into the city having lost 60,000 men |
| 2nd May Leipzig Reinforcements fail to arrive & the Saxons change sides |
| 2nd May Leipzig The Confederation dissolves after Napoleon's defeat at Leipzig |
| Oct Leipzig Defeated by the Fourth Coalition |
| Oct Leipzig Napoleon arranges his army around Leipzig, but concentrates his force from Taucha through Sttteritz (where Napoleon placed his command), The Prussians advance from Wartenburg, the Austrians & Russians from Dresden & the Swedish force from the north |
| 16th Oct Leipzig In total, the French have around 190,000 soldiers and the Allies almost 330,000 with both sides having significant artillery, there were over two and a half thousand pieces of ordnance on the field |
| 16th Oct Leipzig The allied offensives achieve little and are soon forced back, but Napoleon's outnumbered forces are unable to break the allied lines, resulting in a hard fought stalemate |
| 16th Oct Leipzig The battle beginswith an attack by 78,000 Allied troops from the south and 54,000 from the north, with Napoleon using the bulk of his army in the south |
| 18th Oct Leipzig The 6th Coalition is arranged with Field Marshal Blcher (Prussian) & Crown Prince Carl Johan of Sweden to the north, Generals Barclay De Tolly, Bennigsen (Russian) & Prince von Hessen-Homburg (Austrian) to the south & Gyulay (Austrian) to the north |
| 18th Oct Leipzig The Allies launch a huge assault from all sides, in over nine hours of fighting, in which both sides suffer heavy casualties, the French troops prevent a breakthrough but are slowly forced back towards Leipzig |
| 19th Oct Leipzig During the fighting, 5,400 Saxons of Jean Reynier's VII Corps defect to the Allies, Napoleon sees that the battle is a lost cause and on the night of the 18th-19th he begins to withdraw the majority of his army across the river Elster |
| 1813 | Reynier, Jean | |
| 19th Oct Leipzig During the fighting, 5,400 Saxons of Jean Reynier's VII Corps defect to the Allies, Napoleon sees that the battle is a lost cause and on the night of the 18th-19th he begins to withdraw the majority of his army across the river Elster |
