[103] Under the command of Marshal Augereau, Duc de Castiglione.—B.
[104] The Congress of Châtillon, between the four allied Powers and France, had opened on the 5th of February 1814. France was represented by the Duc de Vicence; Austria by Count von Stadion; Prussia by Baron von Humboldt; Russia by Count Razumowsky; England by Sir Charles Stuart, with Lord Cathcart and the Earl of Aberdeen.—T.
[105] Field-Marshal Gebhart Lebrecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstadt (1743-1819), who played a prominent part in command of the Prussian forces in the Waterloo campaign.—T.
[106] 7 March 1814.—T.
[107] 27 February.—T.
[108] 4 March.—T.
[109] Napoleon drove a Russian corps out of Rheims on the 13th of March 1814.—T.
[110] The Battle of Arcis-Sur-Aube lasted two days (20 and 21 March). It was the last battle which Napoleon delivered in person in this campaign. He had to abandon the field to the enemy; but the two days were none the less most glorious for the French soldiers and their leader. Napoleon's 20,000 men had resisted a mass which rose successively from 40,000 to 90,000.—B.
[111] I have heard General Pozzo tell that it was he who persuaded the Emperor Alexander to march forward.—Author's Note.
The resolution to march on Paris was taken on the 24th of March, at Sommepuis.—B.