The 1814 British invasion of Italy was a maneuver by the British Empire to attempt to unseat French forces from power in the Italian Peninsula following the disastrous failures of the Sixth Coalition in 1813, including the capitulation of both Russia and Austria within an inordinately short period of time and the British losses in Spain, where the British Army still maintained a small and besieged presence. The Italian campaign was thus regarded by many in London as the last-ditch effort to win the war - the goal was that if a French puppet king such as Joachim Murat in Naples could be dislodged and the British could occupy Rome, other nations would soon see that they too could shake free of the French yoke. The total defeat of Napoleon on the continent was no longer the goal or a realisti