Napoleon had succesfully beaten the Coalition at the battle of Waterloo. He continued to march on into Germany unchallenged. At Berlin met the Prussian Army along side with the British and Austrian Forces numbering around 250. 000. Napoleon with an army numbering around 150,000 joined by many Germans who wanted freedom from the Prussians. Though, outnumbered he secretly was able to sent 10,000 cavalry to flank the united army and in doing so had massacring the entire army and capturing Berlin and later all of Prussia. Not soon after this devastating defeat at Berlin, the Austrian Government called on the British for support against Napoleon who now entered into Austrian territory with an army now standing at 300,000. The British had just barely got the messenger out of Germany to find out