Battle of Paris

When

30 Mar 1814 – 31 Mar 1814

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

48.86° N, 2.35° E

Description

1814 battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition

1814 battle of the War of the Sixth Coalition

The Battle of Paris or the Storming of Paris saw the Allied forces of Russia, Austria, Prussia, and Württemberg attack Paris defended by troops of the First French Empire under Joseph Bonaparte. The French soldiers put up a stout resistance at the capital's eastern suburbs on 30 March but were steadily driven back by the overwhelmingly superior Allied forces.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “第六次対仏大同盟軍がパリに入城（パリの戦い）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page