Editing Six Days' Campaign (section)

==Campaign==
{{See also|Six Days' Campaign order of battle}}

Napoleon was too quick for Blücher: he decimated Lieutenant General Olsufiev's Russian IX Corps at the [[Battle of Champaubert]] (10 February).{{sfn|Pawly|2012|pp=21–22}} There were 4,000 Russian casualties and Russian General [[Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev]] taken prisoner, to approximately 200 French casualties.<ref name=Chandler>{{harvnb|Chandler|1999|pp=87, 90, 286–87, 459}}.</ref>

This placed the French army between Blücher's vanguard and his main body.{{sfn|Pawly|2012|p=22}} Napoleon turned his attention to the vanguard and defeated [[Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken|Osten-Sacken]] and [[Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg|Yorck]] at [[Battle of Montmirail|Montmirail]] on 11 February;{{sfn|Pawly|2012|p=22}} There were 4,000 Coalition casualties, to 2,000 French casualties.<ref name=Chandler/> Napoleon attacked and defeated them again the next day at the [[Battle of Château-Thierry (1814)|Battle of Château-Thierry]].{{sfn|Pawly|2012|p=23}} There were 1,250 Prussian, 1,500 Russian casualties and nine cannons lost, to approximately 600 French casualties.<ref name=Chandler/>

Napoleon then turned on the main body of the Army of Silesia and on 14 February defeated Blücher in the [[Battle of Vauchamps]] near [[Étoges]], pursuing the latter towards [[Vertus]].{{sfn|Maude|1911|p=232}} There were 7,000 Prussian casualties and 16 cannons lost, to approximately 600 French casualties.<ref name=Chandler/>{{sfn|Chandler|1966|p=975}}

These disasters compelled the retreat of the whole Silesian army, and Napoleon, leaving detachments with Marshals [[Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier|Mortier]] and Marmont to deal with them, hurried back to Troyes.{{sfn|Maude|1911|p=232}}