Napoleonic Wars
Series of wars around Napoleonic France that remade European borders before the Congress of Vienna.
Historical overview
Overview adapted from a Wikipedia summary and stored locally on May 11, 2026.
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a global series of conflicts fought by a fluctuating array of European coalitions against the French First Republic (1803–1804) under the First Consul followed by the First French Empire (1804–1815) under the Emperor of the French, Napoleon I. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) and produced a period of French domination over Continental Europe. The wars are categorised as seven conflicts, five named after the coalitions that fought Napoleon, plus two named for their respective theatres: the War of the Third Coalition, War of the Fourth Coalition, War of the Fifth Coalition, War of the Sixth Coalition, War of the Seventh Coalition, the Peninsular War, and the French invasion of Russia.
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Revolutionary and Napoleonic borders
Revolutionary France and Napoleon redraw much of Europe before the Congress of Vienna restores a new settlement.
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