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Cavalry charges of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
- 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 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 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 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…
- 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 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 CzarnowoOn the 14th of October 1806, Napoleon administered a terrible beating to the principal Prussian armies at Jena-Auerstedt.
- 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 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 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 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 WaterlooOn the 13th of March 1815, six days before Napoleon I reached Paris, the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw.
- 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…