Editing Battle of Vauchamps (section)

==Result==
The battle was actually no more than a very long cavalry pursuit and was a very costly defeat for Blücher's "Army of [[Silesia]]", which lost as much as 10,000 men, during this day. French author Jean-Pierre Mir states that the Prussian Corps of Kleist had 3,500 men out of action (killed, wounded and missing), as well as 2,000 prisoners. According to this author, the Russian Corps had around 3,500 men, killed, wounded or missing and also lost 15 cannons and 10 flags.<ref name=Mir66/> Historian Alain Pigeard places overall losses of the Army of Silesia throughout this day between 9,000 and 10,000 men but the detail of these losses seems to suggest lighter casualties. Pigeard speaks of only 1,250 men killed, wounded or missing and 2,000 prisoners for the Prussians, and of 2,000 men lost for the Russians. Since Pigeard asserts that these casualties occurred during the pursuit, it is possible that these figures do not take into account the casualties incurred during the initial actions of this battle (one battalion of Zieten's brigade captured, plus the 2,000 prisoners taken during Grouchy's and Nansouty's joint action against Zieten). According to Pigeard, the French registered very light casualties of around 600 men.<ref name=Pigeard887/>

Military Historian Jacques Garnier, analysing the battle in [[Jean Tulard]]'s ''Dictionnaire Napoléon'', notes that only the muddy, sodden ground, hampering an efficient deployment of the French artillery and infantry, prevented a much more emphatic victory. He also notes that after Vauchamps, Napoleon was able to safely turn south and fall at the [[Battle of Mormant]] upon the "[[Army of Bohemia]]", commanded by [[Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg|Prince of Schwarzenberg]].<ref name=Tulard/>