Hundred Days participant Russian Empire
Archduke Charles gathered Austrian and allied German states, while the Prince of Schwarzenberg formed another Austrian army. King Ferdinand VII of Spain summoned British officers to lead his troops against France. Tsar Alexander I of Russia mustered an army of 250,000 troops and sent these rolling toward the Rhine. Prussia mustered two armies. One under Blücher took post alongside Wellington's British army and its allies. The other was the North German Corps under General Kleist.
Assessed as an immediate threat by Napoleon:
Anglo-allied, commanded by Wellington, cantoned south-west of Brussels, headquartered at Brussels.
Prussian Army commanded by Blücher, cantoned south-east of Brussels, headquartered at Namur.
Close to the borders of France but assessed to be less of a threat by Napoleon:
The German Corps (North German Federal Army) which was part of Blücher's army, but was acting independently south of the main Prussian army. Blücher summoned it to join the main army once Napoleon's intentions became known.
The Austrian Army of the Upper Rhine, commanded by Field Marshal Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg.
The Swiss Army, commanded by Niklaus Franz von Bachmann.
The Austrian Army of Upper Italy – Austro-Sardinian Army – commanded by Johann Maria Philipp Frimont.
The Austrian Army of Naples, commanded by Frederick Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza.
Other coalition forces which were either converging on France, mobilised to defend the homelands, or in the process of mobilisation included:
A Russian Army, commanded by Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, marching towards France
A Reserve Russian Army to support Barclay de Tolly if required.
A Reserve Prussian Army stationed at home in order to defend its borders.
An Anglo-Sicilian Army under General Sir Hudson Lowe, which was to be landed by the Royal Navy on the southern French coast.
Two Spanish Armies were assembling and planning to invade over the Pyrenees.
A Netherlands Corps, under Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, was not present at Waterloo but as a corps in Wellington's army it did take part in minor military actions during the Coalition's invasion of France.
A Danish contingent known as the Royal Danish Auxiliary Corps (commanded by General Prince Frederik of Hesse) and a Hanseatic contingent (from the free cities of Bremen, Lübeck and Hamburg) later commanded by the British Colonel Sir Neil Campbell, were on their way to join Wellington; both however, joined the army in July having missed the conflict.
A Portuguese contingent, which due to the speed of events never assembled.
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