Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Musi wa 18 Kukadzi 1814, Napoleon akarova mubatanidzwa wemauto aitungamirirwa naCrown Prince Fredrick William weWürttemberg muHondo yeMontereau
. Pashure pokukundwa uku, mukuru mukuru wehondo yeAustria Karl Philipp, Muchinda weSchwarzenberg akarayira Hondo yeBohemia kuti idzokere kuTroyes. Schwarzenberg akakumbira mubatsiri wake Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher kuti amubatsire kudzivirira rutivi rwake rwokuchamhembe paMéry-sur-Seine; mukuru mukuru wePrussian akabva angofamba achimubatsira. VaAustria vaida kurwisa musi wa 21-22 Kukadzi pedyo neTroyes. Zvisinei, mashoko akaipa akabva kumukuru wake mukuru kumaodzanyemba, Muchinda Frederick VI weHesse-Homburg akachinja zvaakanga aronga. NaMarshal Pierre Augereau achityisidzira kutorazve Chalon-sur-Saône naJean Gabriel Marchand vachifamba vachienda kuGeneva, Schwarzenberg akatumira Vincenzo Federico Bianchi neAustria I Corps pamwe nemamwe mauto. Bianchi akarayirwa kuti aende kuDijon kunosimbisa mauto eHesse-Homburg.