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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte French pronunciation: [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt]; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) later known as Napoleon I, and previously Napoleone di Buonaparte, was a military and political leader of France whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century....
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Battle of Waterloo
In the Battle of Waterloo (Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo, Belgium) forces of the French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte and Michel Ney were defeated by those of the Seventh Coalition, including an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke...
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Battle of Rovereto
In the Battle of Rovereto (or Battle of Roveredo) on 4 September 1796 a French army commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte routed an Austrian corps led by Paul Davidovich during the French Revolutionary Wars. The battle was fought near the town of Rovereto...
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Battle of Montenotte
The Battle of Montenotte was fought on 12 April 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French forces under General Napoleon Bonaparte and an Austrian force under Count Feldmarschal-Leutnant (FML) Eugène Argenteau. The battle was fought...
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Second Battle of Dego
The Second Battle of Dego was fought on 14 and 15 April 1796 during the French Revolutionary Wars between French forces and Austro-Sardinian forces. The battle was fought near Dego, a hamlet in northwestern Italy, and ended in a French victory....
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Battle of Bassano
The Battle of Bassano was fought on 8 September 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars, in the territory of the Republic of Venice, between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces led by Count Dagobert von Wurmser. The battle...
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Battle of Mount Tabor
The Battle of Mount Tabor, or Skirmish of Mount Tabor, opposed French forces under General Kleber to an Ottoman force led by the Pasha of Damascus on 16 April 1799. General Bonaparte was besieging Acre, and Damascus sent its army to relieve the...
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Battle of Castiglione
The Battle of Castiglione was a battle of the War of the First Coalition which took place on 5 August 1796 at Castiglione delle Stiviere in northern Italy between a French army under General Napoleon Bonaparte and an Austrian army under Field...
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Battle of Teugen-Hausen
The Battle of Teugen-Hausen was fought on 19 April 1809, and resulted in a French victory of Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout over part of the Austrian Army of Archduke Charles. The battle was the first engagement of a four day campaign which culminated...
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Battle of Landshut
The Battle of Landshut took place on April 21, 1809, between the French, Württembergers (VIII Corps) and Bavarians (VII Corps) under Napoleon which numbered about 77,000 strong, and 36,000 Austrians under the General Johann von Hiller. The battle...
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Battle of Mondovi
The Battle of Mondovì was fought on 21 April 1796 between the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte and the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont. The French won the battle and quickly forced King Victor Amadeus III to sue for peace.
This was the...
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Battle of Krasnoi
The Battle of Krasnoi (Krasny) (November 15 to 18, 1812) was a series of skirmishes fought in the final stage of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. This encounter was noteworthy because of the heavy losses inflicted on the remnants of the Grande Armée...
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Battle of Laon
The Battle of Laon (9-10 March 1814) was the victory of Blücher's Prussian army over Napoleon's French army near Laon.
An Allied coalition attempted to complete the destruction of Napoleon's French Empire in 1814. France had been defeated in Russia...
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Battle of Reims
The Battle of Reims was fought at Reims (France) on 13 March 1814 between the French Empire and a Russian-Prussian force. The French, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, were victorious.
The engagement took place during the 1814 campaign. After Napoleon had...
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Battle of La Rothiere
The Battle of La Rothière was fought on February 1, 1814 between the French Empire and Prussia. The French were led by Napoleon Bonaparte and the Prussians by Blücher. Attacked by a large Prussian force, the French managed to hold until they could...
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- First French Empire
Battle of Château-Thierry
The Battle of Château-Thierry occurred on 12 February 1814 between a Prussian army under Marshal von Blücher and the French under Emperor Napoleon I. After winning a series of impressive tactical victories (during what would become known as the Six...
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Battle of Millesimo
The Battle of Millesimo, fought on 13 and 14 April, 1796, was the name that Napoleon Bonaparte gave in his correspondence to one of a series of small battles that were fought in Piedmont, Northern Italy between the armies of France and the allied...
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Battle of Abukir
The Battle of Abukir (or Aboukir) was Napoleon Bonaparte's decisive victory over Seid Mustafa Pasha's Turkish army on 25 July 1799 during the French invasion of Egypt (1798). The French forces had just returned from a campaign to Syria, and the...
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Battle of Berezina
The Battle of Berezina (or Beresina) took place November 26-29, 1812 between the French army of Napoleon, retreating after his invasion of Russia and crossing the Berezina (near Borisov, Belarus), and the Russian armies under Mikhail Kutuzov, Peter...
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Battle of Somosierra
At the Battle of Somosierra (La batalla de Somosierra) (November 30, 1808) a heavily outnumbered Spanish force failed to prevent Napoleon from capturing Madrid in the Peninsular War. It took place at the Somosierra pass in the Sierra de Guadarrama...
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Battle of Lodi
The Battle of Lodi was fought on May 10, 1796 between French forces under General Napoleon Bonaparte and an Austrian rear guard led by Feldzeugmeister Johann Beaulieu at Lodi, Italy. The Austrian rear guard was defeated, but the main body of the...
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Battle of Jena-Auerstedt
The twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt (older name: Auerstädt) were fought on 14 October 1806 on the plateau west of the river Saale in today's Germany, between the forces of Napoleon I of France and Frederick William III of Prussia. The decisive...
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Battle of Wagram
The Battle of Wagram (July 5–6 1809) was the most important military engagement of the War of the Fifth Coalition and took place on the Marchfeld plain, on the north bank of the Danube. An important site of the battle was the village of Deutsch...
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Battle of Vauchamps
The Battle of Vauchamps, the final major engagement of the Six Days Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought on February 14, 1814 and resulted in 18,000 French under Napoleon defeating 30,000 Prussian and Russian troops. The allied forces lost 9...
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Battle of Rivoli
The Battle of Rivoli (14–15 January 1797) was a key victory in the French campaign in Italy against Austria. Napoleon Bonaparte's 23,000 Frenchmen defeated an attack of 28,000 Austrians under Feldzeugmeister Jozsef Alvinczi, ending Austria's fourth...
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Battle of Mormans
The Battle of Mormans was fought on 17 February 1814 and resulted in the victory of the French under Napoleon Bonaparte against the Russians and Württembergers under Count Pahlen.
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Battle of Montmirail
The Battle of Montmirail was a battle fought near Montmirail, France, during the Six Days Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. It was fought on February 11, 1814, and resulted in the victory of the French under Napoleon Bonaparte over the Russians under...
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Battle of Montereau
The Battle of Montereau was fought near Montereau-Fault-Yonne on February 18, 1814 and resulted in the victory of the French under Napoleon Bonaparte against Austrians and the Württembergeois under Royal Prince of Württemberg.
Following his...
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Battle of Marengo
The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy. The French defeated Austrian General Michael von Melas's surprise attack, driving...
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Battle of Eckmühl
The Battle of Eckmühl (also known as "Eggmühl") fought on 21 April – 22 April, 1809, was the turning point of the 1809 Campaign, also known as the War of the Fifth Coalition. Napoleon I had been unprepared for the start of hostilities on April 10,...
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Battle of Dresden
The Battle of Dresden was fought on 26-27 August 1813 around Dresden, Germany, resulting in a French victory under Napoleon I against forces of the Sixth Coalition of Austrians, Russians and Prussians under Field Marshal Schwartzenberg. However,...
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Battle of Craonne
The Battle of Craonne was fought on March 7, 1814, and resulted in a French victory under Napoleon I against Russians and Prussians under General Blücher.
Craonne is a village on the Chemin des Dames, in the département of Aisne.
Marshal Blucher had...
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Battle of Champaubert
The Battle of Champaubert (now Giffaumont-Champaubert) was the opening engagement of the Six Days Campaign. It was fought on February 10, 1814 by a French force under Napoleon I against Russians and Prussians under General Olssufiev. The battle was...
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Battle of Bautzen
In the Battle of Bautzen (20-21 May 1813) a combined Russian/Prussian army was pushed back by Napoleon, but escaped destruction, some sources claim, because Michel Ney failed to block their retreat. The Prussians under Count Gebhard von Blücher and...
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Battle of Brienne
The Battle of Brienne was fought on January 29, 1814, and resulted in a French victory under Napoleon Bonaparte against the Russians and Prussians under General Blücher.
The battle followed on the heels of reverses suffered by the French in both...
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Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube
The Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube (March 20-21, 1814) was Napoleon’s penultimate battle before his abdication and exile to Elba (the last was the Battle of Saint-Dizier). Encountering Field Marshal Schwarzenberg's larger Austrian force, Napoleon...
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Battle of Eylau
The Battle of Eylau or Battle of Preussisch-Eylau (7-8 February 1807) was a bloody and inconclusive battle between Napoléon's Grande Armée and a mostly Russian army under General Bennigsen near the town of Preußisch Eylau in East Prussia.
Eylau was...
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Battle of Lützen
In the Battle of Lützen (May 2, 1813), Napoleon lured a combined Prussian and Russian force into a trap, halting the advances of the Sixth Coalition after his devastating losses in Russia. The Russian commander, Prince Peter Wittgenstein, attempting...
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Battle of Borodino
The Battle of Borodino (Russian: Бородинская битва, Borodinskaya bitva; French: Bataille de la Moskowa), fought on September 7, 1812, was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the French invasion of Russia, involving more than 250,000...
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Battle of Leipzig
The Battle of Leipzig (German: Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig) or Battle of the Nations, fought on 16–19 October 1813, was one of the most decisive defeats suffered by Napoleon Bonaparte. The battle was fought on German soil and involved German troops...
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Battle of Hanau
The Battle of Hanau was fought on (30 - 31 October, 1813) between Karl Philipp von Wrede’s Austro-Bavarian corps and Napoleon's retreating French during the War of the Sixth Coalition.
Following Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig earlier in...
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Battle of Abensberg
The Battle of Abensberg took place on April 20, 1809, between the French, Württembergers (VIII Corps) and Bavarians (VII Corps) under Napoleon which numbered about 90,000 strong, and 80,000 Austrians under the Archduke Charles of Austria. The battle...
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Battle of Ulm
The Battle of Ulm (October 16-19, 1805) was a series of minor skirmishes at the end of Napoleon Bonaparte's Ulm Campaign, culminating in the surrender of an entire Austrian army near Ulm in Württemberg.
In 1805, the United Kingdom, the Austrian...
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Battle of Smolensk
The First Battle of Smolensk took place on August 17, 1812, between 175,000 men of the Grande Armée under Napoleon Bonaparte and 130,000 Russians under Prince Bagration, of whom about 50,000 and 60,000 respectively were actually engaged. Bagration's...
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Battle of Aspern-Essling
In the Battle of Aspern-Essling (21 May – 22 May 1809), Napoleon attempted a forced crossing of the Danube near Vienna, but the French and their allies were driven back by the Austrians under Archduke Charles. The battle was the first time Napoleon...
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Siege of Acre
The Siege of Acre of 1799 was an unsuccessful French siege of the Ottoman-defended, walled city of Acre (now Akko in modern Israel) and was the turning point of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria.
A site of significant strategic importance due...
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Battle of the Bridge of Arcole
The Battle of Arcole or Battle of Arcola (15-17 November 1796) saw a bold maneuver by Napoleon Bonaparte to outflank the Austrian army under József Alvinczi and cut its line of retreat. This French victory occurred during the third Austrian attempt...
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts declared against Napoleon's French Empire and changing sets of European allies by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789,...
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Peninsular War
The Peninsular War was a contest between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when French armies invaded Portugal in 1807 and Spain in...
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Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz (Czech: Bitva u Slavkova) also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of Napoleon Bonaparte's greatest victories, effectively destroying the Third Coalition against the French Empire. On 2 December 1805 (20...
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Battle of Ligny
The Battle of Ligny (16 June 1815) was the last victory of the military career of Napoleon Bonaparte. In this battle, French troops of the Armée du Nord under Napoleon's command, defeated a Prussian army under Field Marshal Blücher, near Ligny in...
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Third Coalition
The War of the Third Coalition spanning from 1803 to 1806 saw the defeat of an alliance of Austria, Portugal, Russia, and others by France and its client states under Napoleon I. Great Britain was the only country still at war with France after the...
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French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states. Marked by French revolutionary fervour and military innovations, the campaigns saw...
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War of the Sixth Coalition
In the War of the Sixth Coalition (1812–1814), a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and a number of German States finally defeated France and drove Napoleon Bonaparte into exile on Elba. After Napoleon's disastrous...
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French invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia of 1812 was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. The campaign reduced the French and allied invasion forces to a tiny fraction of their initial strength. Its sustained role in Russian culture may be seen in Tolstoy's...
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War of the Fifth Coalition
The War of the Fifth Coalition, fought in the year 1809, pitted a coalition of the Austrian Empire and the United Kingdom against Napoleon's French Empire and Bavaria. Major engagements between France and Austria, the main participants, unfolded...
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War of the Fourth Coalition
The Fourth Coalition against Napoleon's French Empire was defeated in a war spanning 1806–1807. Coalition partners included Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Many members of the coalition had previously been fighting France as...
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Battle of the Pyramids
The Battle of the Pyramids, also known as the Battle of Embabeh, was a battle fought on July 21, 1798 between the French army in Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte, and local Mamluk forces. It occurred during France's Egyptian Campaign and was the...
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Haïtian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) is the period of violent conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, leading to the elimination of slavery and the establishment of Haiti as the first republic ruled by blacks. Although hundreds of rebellions...
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Wielkopolska Uprising
Greater Poland Uprising of 1806 was a military insurrection by Poles in Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) against the occupying Prussian forces after the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1772–1793).
The 1806 Greater Poland Uprising was...
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Six Days Campaign
The Six Days Campaign (10 February - 14 February 1814) was a final series of victories by the forces of Napoleon Bonaparte as the Sixth Coalition closed in on Paris.
With an army of only 70,000, the Emperor was faced with at least half a million...
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