List of battles of the Hundred Days
This is a list of sieges, land and naval battles of the Hundred Days or War of the Seventh Coalition (20 March – 8 July 1815, or 15 March – 16 August 1815, depending on periodisation). It includes:
- the Waterloo campaign (8 June – 8 July 1815);
- the Neapolitan War (15 March – 20 May 1815), plus the Siege of Gaeta (1815) (28 May – 8 August 1815);
- the minor campaigns of 1815 (18 June – 7 July 1815), plus the reduction of the French fortresses in 1815 (8 July – 16 August 1815); and
- the Invasion of Guadeloupe (1815) (8–10 August 1815).
See also
[edit]- List of battles of the War of the First Coalition
- List of battles of the War of the Second Coalition
- List of battles of the War of the Third Coalition
- List of battles of the War of the Fourth Coalition
- List of battles of the War of the Fifth Coalition
- List of battles of the War of the Sixth Coalition
- List of battles of the French invasion of Russia
Notes
[edit]- ^ Murat fled from Naples on 19 May 1815, reaching Cannes in France on 25 May, and requesting Napoleon to join his army, but Napoleon refused. Murat fled to Corsica after hearing of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, and tried to rally support for another campaign for Naples by landing in Pizzo, Calabria on 8 October. But the population was hostile, captured him and handed him over to Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, who had Murat executed on 13 October 1815.[1]
- ^ After a fighting withdrawal from Waterloo, Napoleon caved into external and internal pressures, and abdicated on 22 June 1815.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Joachim Murat [Napels]". Encarta Encyclopedie Winkler Prins (in Dutch). Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum. 2002.
- ^ "Quatre-Bras". Encarta Encyclopedie Winkler Prins (in Dutch). Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum. 2002.
- ^ "Ligny". Encarta Encyclopedie Winkler Prins (in Dutch). Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum. 2002.
- ^ "Waterloo, Slag bij". Encarta Encyclopedie Winkler Prins (in Dutch). Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum. 2002.
- ^ Buttery, David (2013). "Chapter 7: The Battle of Wavre". Waterloo Battlefield Guide. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1781591215.
- ^ Buttery 2013, Chapter 7.