Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars
War	Part of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
Date	18 May 1803 – 20 November 1815 (12 years, 5 months and 4 weeks)
Location	Atlantic Ocean, Caucasus, Europe, French Guiana, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, North America, North Sea, Río de la Plata, West Indies, Southern Africa, East Indies, Middle East, South America, Pacific Ocean
Result	Coalition victory Congress of Vienna More Results: Second Treaty of Paris Coalition occupation of France. Exile of Napoleon I to Saint Helena. Fall of the First French Empire. Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy. Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark–Norway. Decline of the Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch Empires. Rise of the British Empire as the dominant world superpower. Establishment of the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Rise of Prussia as a great power. Beginning of Italian and German unifications
Belligerents
Belligerents of Napoleonic Wars.
Belligerents of Napoleonic Wars.
Commanders and Leaders
Francis I Frederick William II Alexander I George III Ferdinand VII Gustav IV Adolf (lol) Charles John
Napoleon I Maximilian I Joseph Denmark–Norway Frederick VI Duchy of Warsaw Józef Poniatowski † Batavian Republic Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck Netherlands Louis Bonaparte

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The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts involving Napoleon's French Empire and changing sets of European allies and opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionized European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to the application of modern mass conscription. French power rose quickly, conquering most of Europe, but collapsed rapidly after France's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812. Napoleon's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat resulting in the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France. The wars resulted in the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. Meanwhile the Spanish Empire began to unravel as French occupation of Spain weakened Spain's hold over its colonies, providing an opening for nationalist revolutions in Latin America. As a direct result of the Napoleonic wars the British Empire became the foremost world power for the next century. No consensus exists as to when the French Revolutionary Wars ended and the Napoleonic Wars began. Possible dates include 9 November 1799, when Bonaparte seized power in France; 18 May 1803, when a renewed declaration of war between Britain and France ended the only period of peace in Europe between 1792 and 1814; and 2 December 1804, when Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor. The Napoleonic Wars ended following Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo (18 June 1815) and the Second Treaty of Paris.

Major Battles (1803 - 1815

Photo of The Battle of Trafalgar

• The Battle of Trafalgar, occurred in 1805, naval battle, British victory
• The Battle of Austerlitz, occurred in 1805, land battle, French Victory
• The Battle of Jena-Auerstadt, occurred in 1806, land battle, French Victory
• The Battle of Wagram, occurred in 1809, land battle, French Victory
• The Battle of Talavera, occurred in 1809, land battle, British Victory
• The Battle of Badajoz, occurred in 1812, land battle, British Victory

Photo of The Battle of Wagram

• The Battle of Salamanca, occurred in 1812, land battle, British Victory
• The Battle of Borodino, occurred in 1812, land battle, French Victory
• The Battle of Bautzen, occurred in 1812, land battle, inconclusive
• The Battle of Leipzig, occurred in 1813, land battle, Russian/Prussian/Swedish/Austrian Victory
• The Battle of Toulouse, occurred in 1814, land battle, British Victory
• The Battle of Quatre Bras, occurred in 1815, land battle, inconclusive
• The Battle of Waterloo, occurred in 1815, land battle, British/Prussian Victory