THE 



ANNUAL REGISTER, 



For the Year 1814. 



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GENERAL HISTORY. 



CHAPTER I. 



Conduct of Napoleon after the German Campaign. — 'Bluchers Passage, 

 of the Rhine. — Occupation of Geneva by Bubna.-^General Position 

 of the Allied Armies. — Meeting cf Sovereigns at Basle. — Advance of 

 the Allies. — Nap )leon''s Decree for the Formation of Regiments of 

 Volnnteers. — French Bank limits its Payments. — Langres and 

 Nancy taken. — Reconnaissance on Antwerp. — Napoleon joins his 

 Army. — Affair at Brienne. — Battle of La Rothiere. — Retreat of Na- 

 poleon and Advance of the Allies. — Attempt on Antwerp.- — Surrender 

 of Gorcum. — Troyes, Vitri, and Chalons taken by the Allies. — Na- 

 poleon rallies. — Defeat of a Russian Division. — Attack on B'ucher's 

 Army. — Sackcn and D'Yorrk retire beyond the Marne. — Blucher 

 attacks a7id pursues Marmont. — Is himself attacked at JanvilUer, and 

 with dij/iculty extricates himself. — His Loss and Retreat to Chalons. — 

 Soissons taken by Winzbigerode. — Schrvartzenberg's Advarice upon 

 Paris. — Fs attacked by Napoleon, and obliged, to retreat to Troyes. — 

 Blucher advances again : crosses the Marne : various Actions. — A'ia- 

 poleon recovers Troyes. — Augereau advances from Lyons. — Schwart- 

 zeuherg^s Success on the Aube. — Troyes re-taken. — Oudinot defeated. 

 — Plenipotentiaries at Chatillon. — Position of the different Corps 

 under the Crown Prince of Siveden. — Failure at Bergen-op-Zoom.—' 

 Intelligence from Wellington's Army, Hamburg, Dantzic, and Wit- 

 tenberg.— Operations in Italy. — Treaty between the Emperor of Aus- 

 tria and the King of Naples. 



npiFE European history of the an event so momentous, and preor- 



■*- l.ist ye;)r closefl with the en- naiit with suc'ii mighty consp 



trance of the French territory hy quences, that ihe narrative of its 



the armies of the allied powers; results may justly claim precedence 



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