Military mobilisation during the Hundred Days

Military mobilisation
Part of the Hundred Days
Strategic situation in Western Europe in 1815 : 250,000 Frenchmen faced a coalition of about 850,000 soldiers on four fronts. In addition, Napoleon was forced to leave 20,000 men in Western France to reduce a royalist insurrection.
Strategic situation in Western Europe in June 1815
Date18 June – 7 July 1815
(2 weeks and 5 days)
Location
Western Europe
Belligerents
France France Seventh Coalition:
 United Kingdom
 Netherlands
Hanover
 Nassau
Brunswick
 Prussia
 Austria
 Russia
 Sardinia
Switzerland Switzerland
French royalists
Commanders and leaders

France Napoleon Bonaparte
Marquis de Grouchy
Marshal Soult
Marshal Davout all at different times commander of L'Armée du Nord
France Jean Rapp (Armée du Rhin)
France Suchet, Duc d'Albuféra (Armée des Alpes)
France Claude Lecourbe (Armée du Jura)
France Guillaume Brune Armée du Var

France Charles Decaen and Bertrand, comte Clausel (Armies of the Pyrenees east and west)
France Jean Lamarque (Armée de l'Ouest — Vendée and Loire)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Duke of Wellington (Anglo-allied)
Kingdom of Prussia Gebhard von Blücher (Prussian)
Prince of Schwarzenberg (Upper Rhine), Duke of Casalanza (Upper Italy), Johann Frimont (Naples)
Russian Empire Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (Russia)
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During the Hundred Days of 1815, both the Coalition nations and the First French Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte mobilised for war. This article describes the deployment of forces in early June 1815 just before the start of the Waterloo Campaign and the minor campaigns of 1815.


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