Napoleonic Wars

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The Napoleonic Wars were a series of major early-19th-century conflicts pitting Napoleonic France against various European coalitions, reshaping the continent’s political order and leading to Napoleon Bonaparte’s eventual defeat.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf European conflict
series of wars
alsoKnownAs Coalition Wars
cause French Revolutionary expansionism
Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power
conflictOf First French Empire
various European coalitions
endCause abdication of Napoleon in 1815
defeat at the Battle of Waterloo
endTime 1815
estimatedCasualties millions of military and civilian deaths
followedBy Congress of Vienna order
Victorian era
surface form: Pax Britannica
hasPart French invasion of Russia
Napoleonic Wars self-linksurface differs
surface form: Peninsular War

War of the Fifth Coalition
War of the Fourth Coalition
War of the Second Coalition
War of the Seventh Coalition
War of the Sixth Coalition
War of the Third Coalition
influenced European nationalism
decline of Holy Roman Empire
military tactics and strategy
keyEvent Congress of Vienna
Continental System
Hundred Days
French invasion of Russia
surface form: Invasion of Russia in 1812

Treaty of Tilsit
location Atlantic Ocean
Caribbean
Europe
Indian Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
Middle East
North Africa
mainBelligerent Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: Austrian Empire

Brunswick
Confederation of the Rhine
Denmark–Norway
Duchy of Warsaw
First French Empire
Grand Duchy of Baden
Grand Duchy of Berg
Hanover
Kingdom of Bavaria
Kingdom of Italy
Kingdom of Naples
Portugal
surface form: Kingdom of Portugal

Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia

Kingdom of Sardinia
Saxony
surface form: Kingdom of Saxony

Kingdom of Spain
Sweden
surface form: Kingdom of Sweden

Kingdom of Westphalia
Kingdom of Württemberg
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Ottoman Empire
Russian Empire
Spanish Empire
Switzerland
surface form: Swiss Confederation

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
notableBattle Battle of Aspern-Essling
Battle of Austerlitz
Battle of Borodino
Battle of Friedland
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
Battle of Leipzig
Battle of Ligny
Battle of Quatre Bras
Battle of Salamanca
Battle of Talavera
Battle of Trafalgar
Battle of Vitoria
Battle of Wagram
Battle of Waterloo
precededBy French Revolutionary Wars
relatedTo Congress of Vienna
French Revolutionary Wars
Holy Roman Empire
Industrial Revolution
result British naval supremacy
defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte
establishment of Concert of Europe
redrawing of European borders
restoration of Bourbon monarchy in France
significantCommander Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Francis I of Austria
Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia
surface form: Frederick William III of Prussia

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Horatio Nelson
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
Mikhail Kutuzov
Napoleon Bonaparte
Alexander I of Russia
surface form: Tsar Alexander I of Russia
startTime 1803
timePeriod early 19th century

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