Battle of Issy

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Battle of Issy

Part of the Napoleonic Wars (Seventh Coalition 1815)

Date	3 July 1815
Location	Issy, France
Result	Prussian victory

Belligerents

First French Empire

Kingdom of Prussia

Commanders

Marshal Louis Nicolas Davout

Gebhard von Blücher

v • d • e Waterloo Campaign

Major engagements in small caps Quatre Bras – Ligny – Waterloo – Wavre Rocheservière – La Suffel – Rocquencourt – Issy

The Battle of Issy was a skirmish fought on 3 July 1815 at the village of Issy, a short distance south west of Paris. The result was a victory for Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher over a French army defending Paris, commanded by Marshal Louis Nicolas Davout, Napoleon Bonaparte's minister of war.^[1]

After the French defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the armies of the Duke of Wellington and Blucher and other Seventh Coalition forces advanced upon Paris. Issy was the final attempt of the French Army to defend Paris, and with this defeat, all hope of holding Paris faded. Napoleon Bonaparte had already announced his abdication (24 June 1815); unable to remain in France or escape from it, on 15 July he surrendered himself to Captain Maitland of HMS Bellerophon and was transported to England. The full restoration of Louis XVIII followed the emperor’s departure. Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the island of Saint Helena where he died in May 1821.