The Battle of Leipzig (Saxony) concludes: After four days of fighting, Czar Alexander I, of the Russian Empire, commanding the coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, defeats the Grande Armee of France, commanded by Emperor Napoleon I. This opens up France to a foreign invasion.
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References:
Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, four volumes. (London: Cassell, 1956-58), 3:318.
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