Napoleonic Europe

Napoleonic Wars, series of wars fought between France and a number of European
nations from 1799 to 1815. In 1799 France came under the domination of Napoleon
Bonaparte, who later became Napoleon I, emperor of France, in 1804. The Napoleonic
Wars were a continuation of the wars of the French Revolution (1789-1799), in which
the Habsburgs and other dynastic rulers of Europe combined in an effort to overthrow
the revolutionary government of France and restore the rule of the French monarchy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

French Revolution

Italy

Egypt

Horatio Nelson

Trafalgar

Battle of Egypt

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Peninsular War

Battle of Waterloo

Leaders of the Napoleonic Wars

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