Napoleon has inflicted further defeats on both…
March 1814 CE
Thus, after six weeks fighting, the Coalition armies have hardly gained any ground.
The Coalition generals still hope to bring Napoleon to battle against their combined forces.
However, after the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube on March 20, where the Austrians outnumber his dwindling army eighty thousand to twenty-eight thousand, Napoleon realizes that he can no longer continue with his current strategy of defeating the Coalition armies in detail and decides to change his tactics.
He has two options: he can fall back on Paris and hope that the Coalition members will come to terms, as capturing Paris with a French army under his command will be difficult and time-consuming; or he can copy the Russians and leave Paris to his enemies (as they had left Moscow to him two years earlier).
He decides to move eastward to Saint-Dizier, rally what garrisons he can find, and raise the whole country against the invaders and attack their lines of communications.
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