After Pajol was wounded at Leipzig, General Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud commanded the corps at Hanau in 1813 and at Brienne, La Rothière, Mormant, Fère-Champenoise, and Paris in 1814.

[2] By the time the summer armistice ended on 17 August 1813,[3] Lhéritier commanded the V Cavalry Corps which numbered about 4,000 horsemen in 20 squadrons supported by 6 guns.

[5] As the Allied Army of Bohemia advanced from the south, the V Cavalry Corps covered the left flank during Saint-Cyr's fighting withdrawal.

[9] Beginning at 6:00 AM, the cavalry supported by Marshal Claude Perrin Victor's II Corps advanced against the outnumbered Austrian left wing.

[14] At the Battle of Leipzig on 16–19 October, Pajol led 5,000 troopers and 11 guns in 3 divisions under Generals Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie, Lhéritier, and Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud.

The French successfully parried an attempt by General Ignaz Gyulai's III Armeekorps to cut off their escape route.

[22] By late November, Milhaud's V Cavalry Corps covered the Left Bank of the Rhine from Mainz in the north to near Landau in the south.

[23] By the end of January 1814, Allied columns brushed aside the weak forces defending the borders and invaded France.

[24] In a clash at Saint-Dizier on 27 January, 2,100 troopers belonging to Milhaud's cavalry defeated 1,500 men of the Russian 2nd Hussar Division.

Before 3:00 PM, the horsemen swept forward, driving back General Pyotr Pahlen's Russian cavalry.

In their pursuit, the dragoon divisions of Lhéritier and General André Louis Briche came across three Russian battalions in square formations and were repulsed.

Late in the day, Napoleon threw in Milhaud's corps to cover the disengagement of his outnumbered and defeated army.

On the 10th, the III and V Cavalry Corps and General Antoine-Louis Decrest de Saint-Germain massed at Meaux to cover a river crossing.