SNC039-C
Consignment
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Del Prado SNC039 Corporal, French Guards of Honour, 1814
Following the overwhelming Allied victory at Leipzig in October 1813, and the retreat of the French to the Rhine, the main operations in 1814 would shift from Germany to eastern France, where Napoleon could not even muster 100,000 men to oppose the Allied armies approaching the Rhine with a combined strength of over 300,000 men. In Paris, as well as in the countryside, political uneasiness with the regime and general war-weariness began to exacerbate an increasingly dire military situation.
Napoleon recognised that an acute shortage of men posed his great-est short-term problem. The campaigns of 1812 and 1813 had cost him nearly a million men, and there were no simple means of replacing even a fraction of these particularly with the loss (mostly by defection) of his vassal states east of the Rhine.