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Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars

  • Six Days' CampaignBy the start of 1814, the Sixth Coalition had defeated French forces in both Germany and Spain. Three Coalition armies prepared to invade France from the…
  • Saint-Domingue expeditionIn early 1801, Napoleon Bonaparte decided to appoint his sister Pauline's husband, general Charles Leclerc, as head of a military expedition.
  • Campaign in north-east France (1814)The destruction of Napoleon's Grande Armée during the Russian Campaign in 1813 created a power vacuum that Prussia and Austria could not ignore.
  • French invasion of RussiaNapoleon crossed the Neman River on the 24th of June 1812, initiating a campaign that would reshape European history. The decision to invade Russia stemmed…
  • Walcheren CampaignIn July 1809, the British government made a desperate decision to seal the Scheldt estuary. They feared the port of Antwerp would become a base for French…