CASUALTY RECORD // January 1, 1814
Battle of Mâcon
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 1,300 estimated
France
1,300
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
At Mâcon on 1 January 1814, a French division under Louis Musnier attacked an Austrian corps led by Frederick Bianchi. Despite achieving initial success, French numerical inferiority — facing between 8,000 and 16,550 Austrian troops with a force of only 5,000 to 6,000 men — resulted in a French defeat and 1,300 casualties. The engagement was one of a sequence of reverses inflicted on French forces in the south during the War of the Sixth Coalition's final campaign on French soil. It was followed immediately by the Battle of Saint-Georges, where the Allied Army of the South under Prince Frederick of Hesse-Homburg again forced the French to retreat, indicating sustained Austrian pressure along this axis and the inability of local French commanders under Augereau to stabilize the front.
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