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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to the application of modern mass conscription...

Timeline of Events

1796

11.17.1796

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole

1799

4.16.1799

Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor

1801

4.2.1801

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen

1803

5.18.1803

Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.

1805

7.22.1805

Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition

10.21.1805

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signals almost the end of French maritime power and leaves Britain's navy unchallenged until the twentieth century.

11.11.1805

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein

11.16.1805

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern

12.2.1805

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz

1806

10.8.1806

Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the British Empire lay siege to the port of Boulogne in France by using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve.

1807

2.7.1807

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau

7.7.1807

Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.

1809

7.5.1809

The Battle of Wagram, the largest of the Napoleonic Wars.

11.18.1809

In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.

1810

8.27.1810

Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

1812

6.23.1812

Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon I of France invades Russia.

6.24.1812

Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia.

7.22.1812

Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War

9.7.1812

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino

9.14.1812

Napoleonic Wars: French grenadiers enter Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.

10.24.1812

Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.

1814

2.10.1814

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert

2.18.1814

Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.

3.30.1814

Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.

5.30.1814

Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition

11.1.1814

Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.

1815

6.18.1815

Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.

7.15.1815

Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.