Vauchamps, Marne

Vauchamps
Commune
Vauchamps
Location within Grand Est region
Vauchamps
Coordinates: 48°52′52″N 3°36′59″E / 48.8811°N 3.6164°E / 48.8811; 3.6164Coordinates: 48°52′52″N 3°36′59″E / 48.8811°N 3.6164°E / 48.8811; 3.6164
Country France
Region Grand Est
Department Marne
Arrondissement Épernay
Canton Sézanne-Brie et Champagne
Intercommunality Communauté de communes de la Brie Champenoise
Government
  Mayor Michel Dauteuil
Area1 12.88 km2 (4.97 sq mi)
Population (1999)2 258
  Density 20/km2 (52/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 51596 /51210

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Vauchamps is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. The village was the site of the Battle of Vauchamps in which Napoleon's French army defeated Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher's Russo-Prussian army on 14 February 1814.

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