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The military career of Napoleon spanned over 20 years. He led French armies in the French Revolutionary Wars and later, as emperor, in the Napoleonic Wars. Despite his rich war-winning record, Napoleon 's military career ended in defeat. Napoleon has since been regarded as a military genius and one of the finest commanders in history.
January 14: Napoleon wins the Battle of Rivoli. October 17: Treaty of Campo Formio with Austria. December 5: Napoleon returns to Paris as a hero. 1798. 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.
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 ...
The Italian campaign of 1796–1797 (Italian: Campagna d'Italia), also known as the First Italian Campaign, was a series of military operations in Italy during the War of the First Coalition. Led by Napoleon Bonaparte, the First French Republic 's Army of Italy fought and defeated the armies of the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Habsburg monarchy ...
Napoleon not in command. The Battle of Waterloo (Dutch: [ˈʋaːtərloː] ⓘ) was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition.
The 1814 campaign in north-east France was Napoleon 's final campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition. Following their victory at Leipzig in 1813, the Austrian, Prussian, Russian, and other German armies of the Sixth Coalition invaded France. Despite the disproportionate forces in favour of the Coalition, Napoleon managed to inflict several ...
1. The Lion's Mound and the rotunda of the Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo. The Waterloo campaign (15 June – 8 July 1815) was fought between the French Army of the North and two Seventh Coalition armies, an Anglo-allied army and a Prussian army. Initially the French army had been commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte, but he left for Paris after ...
The German campaign (German: Befreiungskriege, lit. ' Wars of Liberation ') was fought in 1813. Members of the Sixth Coalition, including the German states of Austria and Prussia, plus Russia and Sweden, fought a series of battles in Germany against the French Emperor Napoleon, his marshals, and the armies of the Confederation of the Rhine - an ...