The Battle of Montereau was fought during the War of the Sixth Coalition between an Imperial French army led by Emperor Napoleon and a corps of Austrians and Württembergers commanded by Crown Prince Frederick William of Württemberg. While Napoleon's army mauled an Allied army under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, the main Allied army commanded by Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, advanced to a position dangerously close to Paris. Gathering up his outnumbered forces, Napoleon rushed his soldiers south to deal with Schwarzenberg. Hearing of the approach of the French emperor, the Allied commander ordered a withdrawal, but on 17 February saw his rear guards overrun or brushed aside.
Battle of Montereau, 18 February 1814 by Jean-Charles Langlois (1840)
Prince Frederick William
Pierre Claude Pajol
Pajol leading the charge at Montereau.
Montereau-Fault-Yonne, or simply Montereau, is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
Bridges over rivers Seine (foreground), Yonne (background) and statue of Napoléon
John XXIII Square, in Surville.
Plaque commemorating the murder of John the Fearless, on the bridge crossing the Yonne river.
Statue of Napoleon, erected during the Second Empire on the bridge of Montereau.
