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Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe
- Battle of RoveretoOn the 26th of August, orders arrived from Emperor Francis II to immediately attempt a second relief of the fortress of Mantua.
- 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 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 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 EckmühlOn the 10th of April 1809, hostilities erupted between France and Austria without either side knowing the true strength of their opponent.
- Battle of MaloyaroslavetsOn the 19th of October 1812 Napoleon left Moscow and marched southwest toward Kaluga. Eugène de Beauharnais led the advance guard of this massive force.
- 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 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 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 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 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 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…
- 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 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 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 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…
- Battle of Abukir (1799)In July 1798, a French expeditionary force of over 40,000 men landed in Alexandria. Napoleon proposed the annexation of Egypt as part of a wider plan to…
- Battle of Jena–AuerstedtNapoleon I of France thrust a force of 180,000 men through the Franconian Forest in October 1806. This massive army moved against the Fourth Coalition while…
- Battle of WagramIn 1809, the First French Empire held a dominant position on the European continent. Resounding victories during the 1805 to 1807 wars against the Third and…
- Siege of JaffaNapoleon Bonaparte stood at the edge of the Levant in early March 1799. His fleet had been destroyed, yet he pushed forward into Ottoman territories.
- Battle of Smolensk (1812)On the 27th of July, General Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly slipped his First Western Army away from Vitebsk. He avoided a general engagement with Emperor…
- Battle of BorodinoOn the 24th of June 1812, Napoleon crossed the Niemen river with his Grande Armée to begin the invasion of Russia. The French force started with 286,000…
- Battle of MondovìThe Battle of Mondovì erupted on the 21st of April 1796 between Napoleon Bonaparte's French army and the forces of King Victor Amadeus III.
- Battle of EylauNapoleon's armies smashed the army of the Austrian Empire in the Ulm Campaign and the combined Austrian and Russian armies at the Battle of Austerlitz on the…
- Battle of CorunnaIn early October 1808, Sir John Moore took command of a British force numbering 30,000 men in Portugal. The political landscape had shifted dramatically…
- Battle of MarengoThe year 1800 began with France in a state of political and military crisis. Napoleon Bonaparte had seized power as First Consul just months earlier during…
- Battle of ArcoleThe siege of Mantua held the fate of Italy in its grip during November 1796. Emperor Francis II of Austria appointed Feldzeugmeister József Alvinczi to lead…
- Battle of SomosierraNapoleon I advanced into Madrid with 40,000 men in late November 1808. General Benito de San Juan mustered an ad hoc army of about 12,000 men to defend the…