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Though Napoleon Bonaparte's unquenchable thirst for military services adventurism eventually cost him both his throne and his flexibility during the Napoleonic Wars of the late 18th and early 19th hundreds of years, the French emperor was not easily defeated, even though most of Europe's nations united against him. Two military services setbacks, on the scale unprecedented in history, were required prior to the high tide of Napoleon's success commenced to ebb towards the final denouement of the Hundred Days and the famous Challenge of Waterloo. The incredible deficits inflicted on Napoleon's Grand Armee by the ill-fated invasion of Russia in 1812 constituted the first setback that switched the Corsican's life journey from the road of success compared to that of beat and exile. An enormous, veteran, highly experienced pressure, the French Military of Napoleon perished on the rain-soaked paths and sun-seared plains of Russia. Napoleon eventually determined over 400,000 men to his Russian job, but by the end of a relatively brief campaign, no more than 40,000 men went back to Germany alive, and the Russians needed some 100,000 prisoner and essentially absorbed them in to the Russian navy or population. The rest passed on, principally from starvation, but also through opponent action and the bitter freezing of early winter. The failed Russian invasion placed the level for the next beat at Leipzig, which essentially closed the fate of Napoleon's empire. The four-day Challenge of Leipzig in Oct 1813, romantically - but accurately - dubbed the "Battle of the Nations", proved the decisive encounter of the War of the Sixth Coalition and essentially determined the course the Napoleonic Wars needed from that instant forward.
