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A reason that led to the fall of Napoleon would be his decision to invade Russia. During the 1812-campaign he could not force the Russians to surrender before winter decimated his army. Losing hunderds of thousands of veteran troops thoroughly weakened the army. The war that followed in 1813, The War of the Sixth Coalition, was fought by the French with rapidly trained soldiers whose adulthood, in many cases, wasn't reached yet. They were called "Marie Louises", after the Emperor's wife, who signed the decree to press them into service.

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