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BELGIUM: ANTWERP: Siege Issue, AE 5 centimes, 1814, KM-4.1, type with LL monogram, tiny reverse edge defect, some of peripheral legend weak, VF-EF, ex Joe Sedillot Collection. The siege of Antwerp took place during the War of the Sixth Coalition and lasted from January 14, 1814 to May 4, 1814. After the German Campaign of 1813, Napoleon had to retreat back over the Rhine. Whereas the two armies of Blücher and Schwarzenberg invaded France and marched on Paris, a third allied army under Bernadotte entered the Low Countries. In January 1814 Napoleon appointed the old republican Lazare Carnot as governor of Antwerp. The 10,000 men garrison was composed of troops from I Corps and the Young Guard, including a 500 strong battalion of Irish troops. After the French defeat at Hoogstraten, Carnot retreated to the fortified city and the Antwerp Citadel, which was then besieged first by the British and later by Prussian forces. The French garrison under Lazare Carnot, aided by a French naval flotilla under Missiessy, resisted the Allied siege and only surrendered the city after Louis XVIII of France signed an armistice upon Napoleon's abdication.

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