Napoleonic Wars 1803–1815

Coalition forces of the Napoleonic Wars, Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia, Russian Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Grand Duchy of Baden, Kingdom of Bavaria, Duchy of Brunswick ⚔ French First Republic, First French Republic, First French Empire, Client state, Kingdom of Spain under Joseph Bonaparte, Confederation of the Rhine, Duchy of Warsaw, Kingdom of Etruria

Key battles

• Battle of Valmy (1792)
• Battle of Jemappes (1792)
• Siege of Toulon (1793)
• Battle of Hondschoote (1793)
• Siege of Mainz (1793)
• Battle of Cholet (1793)
• Battle of Famars (1793)
• Battle of Fleurus (1794)
• Battle of Lodi (1796)
• Second Battle of Dego (1796)
• Battle of Millesimo (1796)
• Siege of Mantua (1797)
• Battle of the Pyramids (1798)
• Battle of Shubra Khit (1798)
• First Battle of Abukir (1799)
• Siege of Acre (1799)
• Battle of Mount Tabor (1799)
• Battle of Cassano (1799)
• Battle of Winterthur (1799)
• Battle of Trebbia (1799)
• Battle of Stockach (1799)
• Siege of Jaffa (1799)
• Battle of Novi (1799)
• Second Battle of Zurich (1799)
• First Battle of Zurich (1799)
• Battle of Castricum (1799)
• Battle of Marengo (1800)
• Battle of Hohenlinden (1800)
• Battle of Heliopolis (1800)
• Siege of Genoa (1800)
• Second Battle of Abukir (1801)
• Battle of Alexandria (1801)
• Battle of Austerlitz (1805) — Napoleon, Napoleon I, Jean-Baptiste Bessières vs Alexander I of Russia, Alexander I, Mikhail Kutuzov
• Battle of Ulm (1805)
• Battle of Dürenstein (1805)
• Battle of Schöngrabern (1805)
• Battle of Elchingen (1805)
• Battle of Caldiero (1805)
• Battle of Haslach-Jungingen (1805)
• Battle of Jena–Auerstedt (1806)
• Battle of Lübeck (1806)
• Battle of Pułtusk (1806)
• Battle of Saalfeld (1806)
• Battle of Golymin (1806)
• Battle of Campo Tenese (1806)
• Battle of Schleiz (1806)
• Battle of Friedland (1807)
• Battle of Eylau (1807)
• Siege of Danzig (1807)
• Battle of Heilsberg (1807)
• Siege of Kolberg (1807)
• Battle of Bailén (1808)
• Battle of Somosierra (1808)
• Battle of Tudela (1808)
• Battle of Vimeiro (1808)
• Second Siege of Zaragoza (1808)
• Battle of Medina de Rioseco (1808)
• Battles of El Bruch (1808)
• Battle of Espinosa (1808)
• Battle of Roliça (1808)
• First Siege of Zaragoza (1808)
• Battle of Cabezón (1808)
• Battle of Wagram (1809)
• Battle of Aspern-Essling (1809)
• Battle of Talavera (1809)
• Battle of Eckmühl (1809)
• Battle of Corunna (1809)
• Battle of Abensberg (1809)
• Walcheren Campaign (1809)
• Battle of Raszyn (1809)
• Battle of Ocaña (1809)
• Battle of Landshut (1809)
• Battle of Ratisbon (1809)
• Battle of Sacile (1809)
• Battle of Piave River (1809)
• Battle of Raab (1809)
• Battle of Znaim (1809)
• Battle of Teugen-Hausen (1809)
• Battle of Albuera (1811)
• Battle of the Gebora (1811)
• Battle of Borodino (1812)
• Battle of Berezina (1812)
• Battle of Smolensk (1812)
• Battle of Salamanca (1812)
• Battle of Maloyaroslavets (1812)
• Siege of Badajoz (1812)
• Battle of Tarutino (1812)
• First Battle of Polotsk (1812)
• Battle of Krasnoi (1812)
• Battle of Mir (1812)
• Battle of Saltanovka (1812)
• Battle of Leipzig (1813)
• Battle of Vitoria (1813)
• Battle of Lützen (1813)
• Battle of Dresden (1813)
• Battle of Bautzen (1813)
• Battle of Kulm (1813)
• Battle of Großbeeren (1813)
• Battle of Katzbach (1813)
• Battle of Hanau (1813)
• Battle of Dennewitz (1813)
• Battle of Paris (1814)
• Battle of Champaubert (1814)
• Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube (1814)
• Battle of Château-Thierry (1814)
• Battle of Brienne (1814)
• Battle of Laon (1814)
• Battle of Toulouse (1814)
• Battle of Montmirail (1814)
• Battle of La Rothière (1814)
• Battle of Vauchamps (1814)
• Battle of Montereau (1814)
• Battle of Waterloo (1815) — Napoleon Bonaparte, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon vs Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington, Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
• Battle of Ligny (1815)
• Battle of Quatre Bras (1815)
• Battle of Tolentino (1815)
• Battle of Wavre (1815)

Who lived through the Napoleonic Wars

Well-known people alive during 1803–1815:

• Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) — president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809-1865)
• Napoleon (1769–1821) — French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) — German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882) — English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) — German composer (1770-1827)
• Victor Hugo (1802–1885) — French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
• Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) — Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
• Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) — Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) — American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
• Lord Byron (1788–1824) — English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)
• Jane Austen (1775–1817) — English novelist (1775–1817)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) — German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) — German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
• John Adams (1735–1826) — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735–1826)
• Francisco Goya (1746–1828) — Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867) — British scientist (1791–1867)
• Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) — Japanese artist (1760-1849)
• Simón Bolívar (1783–1830) — Venezuelan statesman and military officer (1783–1830)
• Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) — French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
• James Madison (1751–1836) — President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
• Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) — German philosopher (1788-1860)
• Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) — French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)
• Franz Schubert (1797–1828) — Austrian composer (1797–1828)
• Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) — German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)

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