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May 19: Napoleon begins his Egyptian campaign with an army of 38,000. July 21: Wins Battle of the Pyramids against Mamelukes in Egypt. July 24: Fall of Cairo. August 3: Under the command of Admiral Nelson, the British fleet destroys the French navy in the Battle of the Nile.
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) and produced a ...
Timeline. 18 May 1803. Britain declares war on France, beginning the Napoleonic Wars. Jun 1803 - Aug 1805. Napoleon gathers a massive army at Boulogne for a planned invasion of England; this is the origin of Napoleon's famous Grande Armée. 21 Mar 1804.
17 paź 2023 · Explore the timeline of the Napoleonic Wars, from it's origins in the French Revolution to Napoleon's final exile
The Congress of Vienna, which was the settlement that followed the Napoleonic Wars, remade the map of and set the stage for the emergence of Germany and Italy as unified states. The pressures of the Napoleonic Wars also likely prompted Napoleon to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States.
4 gru 2019 · 18 June: The Battle of Waterloo marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars, inflicting a final defeat on Napoleon at the hands of two Seventh Coalition armies: a British-led force under the command of Wellesley and Field Marshal Prince Blücher’s Prussian army.
IMPORTANT DATES AND EVENTS. THE EURPOEAN COALITIONS AGAINST NAPOLEON. First Coalition (1793-1797): Austria, Great Britain, Naples, Prussia, Sardinia, Spain, Portugal. Second Coalition (1798-1800): Austria, Great Britain, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire.
