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Battles commanded by Napoleon
- Battle of Caldiero (1796)On the 2nd of November 1796, Feldzeugmeister Jozsef Alvinczi launched his third attempt to raise the Siege of Mantua. He crossed the Piave River with an army…
- Battle of CevaThe Montenotte Campaign began on the 10th of April when Feldzeugmeister Johann Beaulieu's Austrian army attacked the extreme right flank of General of…
- Battle of RoveretoOn the 26th of August, orders arrived from Emperor Francis II to immediately attempt a second relief of the fortress of Mantua.
- Siege of El ArishIn the beginning of 1799, a force of 2,160 soldiers under the command of Jean Reynier marched towards the Ottoman fortress of El Arish.
- Battle of La RothièreNapoleon stood at the edge of disaster in November 1813. His army had just suffered a crushing defeat at Leipzig, forcing him to retreat across the Rhine…
- Battle of Shubra KhitNapoleon Bonaparte landed his expeditionary forces near Alexandria on the 1st of July 1798. The landing was not peaceful.
- Battle of Château-Thierry (1814)On the 1st of February 1814, Blücher and his generals celebrated a victory at La Rothière. They believed the war would end soon.
- Battle of LaonThe town of Laon rose over 100 meters above the surrounding countryside on the 9th of March 1814. This flat-topped hill provided a commanding view for anyone…
- Revolt of CairoIn 1798, Napoleon led the French army into Egypt. He swiftly captured and occupied Alexandria and Cairo. The campaign began with a bold military move across…
- Battle of ChampaubertOn the 1st of February 1814, Prussian field marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher and Austrian field marshal Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg defeated…
- Battle of MontmirailOn the 1st of February 1814, Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher commanded 80,000 Allied soldiers from his own Army of Silesia and Austrian…
- Battle of HeilsbergOn the 24th of May 1807, Prussian General Friedrich Adolf Count von Kalckreuth surrendered Danzig to French Marshal François Joseph Lefebvre.
- Battle of Reims (1814)On the 9th of March 1814, Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher defeated Emperor Napoleon's army at Laon. The French lost 4,000 killed and wounded plus…
- Battle of BassanoFeldmarschall Wurmser received a direct order from Emperor Francis II to relieve Mantua at once. The first attempt to break the siege had failed at the…
- Battle of BorghettoThe French army swept into Lombardy in early May 1796. General Napoleon Bonaparte had just won the battles of Fombio and Lodi.
- Battle of Landshut (1809)The first battle of Landshut occurred on the 16th of April 1809. Archduke Louis sent his vanguard under Joseph Radetzky against Bernhard Deroy's Bavarian III…
- Battle of MillesimoNapoleon Bonaparte took command of the French Army of Italy in late March 1796. The force consisted of around 40,000 men under arms.
- Battle of Arcis-sur-AubeIn late February 1814, Napoleon discovered that the Allied armies of Schwarzenberg and Blücher had separated. Blücher's army was making a lunge at Paris with…
- Battle of EckmühlOn the 10th of April 1809, hostilities erupted between France and Austria without either side knowing the true strength of their opponent.
- Second Battle of DegoNapoleon Bonaparte stood at the edge of a new campaign in northwestern Italy during April 1796. His army numbered roughly 15,000 men after defeating the…
- Battle of VauchampsOn the 14th of February 1814, the Battle of Vauchamps marked the final major engagement of the Six Days Campaign. This conflict occurred within the War of…
- Second Battle of BassanoEmperor Francis II of Austria appointed Feldzeugmeister József Alvinczi to assemble a new field army in late 1796. This decision followed the disastrous…
- Battle of CastiglioneOn the 4th of July, the formal siege of Mantua began. This fortress held by Joseph Franz Canto d'Irles's Austrian garrison and 179 cannons became the focal…
- Battle of HanauNapoleon arrived at Hanau with reinforcements and defeated Wrede's forces on the 30th of October. This event followed the Battle of Leipzig, which began on…
- Battle of MormantOn the 1st of February 1814, Allied generals celebrated their victory at La Rothière. They believed Napoleon was defeated and planned to advance on Paris…
- Battle of Saint-DizierOn the 24th of March 1814, King Frederick William III of Prussia and Tsar Alexander I of Russia met at Vitry to coordinate their military strategy.
- Second Battle of SaorgioKing Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia sat on a throne that felt increasingly precarious in the spring of 1792. Two of his territories, the County of Nice and…
- Battle of Lützen (1813)Napoleon's army lay in ruins after the 1812 Russian campaign. European powers saw a chance to remove him from power. Prussia declared neutrality following…
- Battle of Tarvis (1797)On the 2nd of February 1797, Feldmarschall Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser surrendered the fortress of Mantua to French forces.
- Battle of Bautzen (1813)The Prusso-Russian army retreated in full disorder after their defeat at the Battle of Lützen. Generals Peter Wittgenstein and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher…
- Battle of Mount Tabor (1799)Napoleon Bonaparte stood in Nazareth on the 16th of April 1799, staring at a map that showed his army trapped between Acre and a massive Ottoman force.
- Battle of FombioNapoleon Bonaparte turned his attention to the Austrians after forcing the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont to sue for peace at the end of the Montenotte…
- Battle of the PyramidsOn the 2nd of July 1798, French troops landed in Ottoman-controlled Egypt and seized Alexandria. General Bonaparte marched his army across the scorching…
- Siege of Mantua (1796–1797)Mantua sits on the Mincio River in the Lombardy region of Italy. In 1796, water surrounded nearly every side of the city.
- Battle of AbensbergOn the 10th of April 1809, Archduke Charles led his army across the Inn River and into the Kingdom of Bavaria. This invasion placed the forces of France and…
- Battle of FriedlandEurope had become embroiled in the War of the Third Coalition in 1805. Following the French victory at the Battle of Austerlitz in December 1805, Prussia…
- Battle of LignyOn the 13th of March 1815, six days before Napoleon reached Paris, the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw.
- Battle of MontereauOn the 10th of February 1814, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg moved his Army of Bohemia from Troyes. Peter Wittgenstein and Karl Philipp von Wrede…
- Battle of RatisbonNapoleon I summoned his first council of war on the night of the 22nd of April 1809. The meeting took place about 18 kilometers south of Ratisbon after his…
- 13 VendémiaireIn March 1793, armed insurrection erupted in the Vendée region of western France. This uprising stemmed from the Revolution's strongly anti-Catholic stance…
- Battle of Aspern-EsslingOn the 10th of April 1809, Austrian troops under Archduke Charles crossed the border into Bavaria. This action began hostilities without a formal declaration…
- Battle of CraonneOn the 22nd of February 1814, Austrian field marshal Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg commanded nearly 150,000 Allied troops against Napoleon's half…
- Battle of DresdenOn the 16th of August 1813, Napoleon dispatched Marshal Saint-Cyr's corps to fortify Dresden. This city in modern-day Germany became a critical pivot point…
- Battle of RivoliThe morning of Saturday the 14th of January found Alvinczi engaging the division of Joubert. He had united three Austrian columns between Caprino on the…
- Battle of BrienneIn November 1813, the 70,000 French survivors of the disastrous German Campaign crossed to the west bank of the Rhine River.
- Battle of MontenotteOn the 27th of March 1796, a young General Bonaparte arrived in Nice to take over the Army of Italy. His army included 63,000 troops, but only 37,600 men and…
- Battle of LonatoOn the 29th of July, the Austrian army set out from Trento with a clear purpose. They aimed to relieve the besieged fortress of Mantua.
- Battle of UlmIn 1805, the United Kingdom, Austria, Sweden and Russia formed the Third Coalition against France. An Austrian army of 72,000 men under Karl Mack von…
- Battle of AusterlitzIn December 1804, an Anglo-Swedish agreement set the stage for a new alliance against France. British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger spent 1804 and…
- Battle of LodiThe Italian campaign of 1796 began with French forces moving rapidly through northern Italy. Napoleon Bonaparte needed to force a crossing at Lodi to…