Battle of the Nations at Leipzig
October 16, 1813
For three days around Leipzig, half a million men from every corner of Europe fought the largest battle the continent had ever seen. Napoleon, outnumbered nearly two to one, broke and fled west. The German states changed sides. The grand coalition that would march on Paris was, at last, in motion.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.