The Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, Germany Size:S: 36 x 28cm Queenhithe flour wharf

Queenhithe flour wharf

View with figures and deer in the foreground

the Right Honourable Lord Charles Bentinck

showing the monkey house

The Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, Germany Size:S: 36 x 28cm Queenhithe flour wharfThe Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, Germany, 18 October 1813 (1900). The Austrian commander, the Prince of Schwarzenberg, bringing news of the victory to the assembled allied monarchs. Part of the War of the Sixth Coalition, Leipzig was the most decisive defeat inflicted on Napoleon before his ultimate demise at Waterloo. With over 500,000 troops involved it was the largest battle fought on European soil before World War I.