French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars information
1792–1815 series of European conflicts
"Coalition Wars" redirects here. For the general concept of coalitions of co-belligerents, see coalition war.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (including the Coalition Wars)
Part of the aftermath of the French Revolution
Coalition wars
Click an image to load the appropriate article. Left to right, top to bottom: Battles of Toulon, Arcole, the Pyramids, Marengo, Trafalgar, Austerlitz, Berlin, Wagram, Leipzig, Paris, Waterloo
Date
20 April 1792— 20 November 1815 (23 years and 7 months)
Location
Europe, overseas colonies of European states
Result
Coalition victory
Belligerents
French First Republic (1792–1804) First French Empire (1804–1815) French client states
Main European powers: Great Britain[a] Holy Roman Empire (pre-1806) Austrian Empire (from 1804) Kingdom of Prussia Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Napoleon (until 1815) Jacques Pierre Brissot (until 1793) Maximilien Robespierre (until 1794) Paul Barras (until 1799)
George III Francis I Frederick William II # Frederick William III Paul I # Alexander I
Austrian: 514,700 killed, wounded, or captured (1792–97)[3] 440,000 killed, wounded, or captured (1799–1801)[1] 396,000 killed in action (1805–15)[4] Prussians: 154,000 killed in action[4] Russians: 299,000 killed in action[4]
War of the Fourth Coalition: 700,000 deaths[4] War of the Fifth Coalition: 300,000 deaths[4] Peninsular War: 2,400,000 deaths[4] War of the Sixth Coalition: 450,000 deaths[4] War of the Seventh Coalition: 60,000 deaths[4]
Coalition Wars
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Waterloo
9
France
8
7
Austria
6
Prussia
5
Germany
4
Italy
3
Egypt
2
1
Key:
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First Coalition: France 1792:...Toulon...
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Second Coalition: Egypt 1798:...Pyramids...
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Second Coalition: Italy 1799:...Marengo...
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Third Coalition: Germany 1803:...Austerlitz...
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Fourth Coalition: Prussia 1806:...Jena...
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Fifth Coalition: Austria 1809:...Wagram...
7
Sixth Coalition: Germany 1813:...Leipzig...
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Sixth Coalition: France 1814:...Paris...
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Seventh Coalition: Belgium 1815:...Waterloo...
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars,[5] sometimes called the Great French War, were a series of conflicts between the French and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.[6][7] They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France – later the First French Empire – and its allies between 1792 and 1815:
War of the First Coalition (April 1792 – October 1797)
War of the Second Coalition (November 1798 – March 1802)
War of the Third Coalition (April 1805 – July 1806)
War of the Fourth Coalition (October 1806 – July 1807)
War of the Fifth Coalition (April – October 1809)
War of the Sixth Coalition (March 1813 – May 1814)
War of the Seventh Coalition, also known as the Hundred Days (March – July 1815)
Although the Coalition Wars are the most prominent subset of conflicts of this era, some French Revolutionary Wars such as the French invasion of Switzerland (1798), and some Napoleonic Wars such as the French invasion of Russia (June – December 1812) and the Peninsular War (October 1807 – April 1814), are not counted amongst the "Coalition Wars" proper.
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^Clodfelter 2017, pp. 171.
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^Forrest, Alan (2004). "The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars". Early Modern Military History, 1450–1815. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 196–211. doi:10.1057/9780230523982_12. ISBN 978-1-4039-0697-7.
^Grab, Alexander (2003). Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 1. ISBN 9781403937575. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
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French First Republic (1792–1804)
First French Empire (1804–1815)
Great Britain[a]
Holy Roman Empire (pre-1806)
Austrian Empire (from 1804)
Kingdom of Prussia
Russian Empire
(until 1815)
(until 1793)
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