Napoleonic Wars

Denmark

Prince Schwarzenberg
Karl Mack von Leiberich
Gebhard von Blücher
Duke of Brunswick
Prince of Hohenlohe
Alexander I of Russia
Mikhail Kutuzov
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
Count Bennigsen
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
Prince Charles John
Francisco Castaños
The Duke of Wellington
Horatio Nelson†

Joseph Bonaparte
Eugène Beauharnais
Joachim Murat
Louis Nicolas Davout
André Masséna
Michel Ney
Józef Poniatowski
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony
and other Marshals

The Napoleonic Wars comprised a series of global conflicts fought during Napoleon Bonaparte's imperial rule over France (1804–1815). They continued to some extent the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789. These wars revolutionized European armies and artillery, as well as other military systems, and took place on a scale never before seen, mainly due to the application of modern mass conscription. French power rose quickly, conquering most of Europe; and collapsed rapidly after France's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812, and Napoleon's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat, resulting in the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France. Meanwhile, the Spanish Empire began to unravel as French occupation of Spain itself weakened the Spanish hold over its colonies and provided an opening for nationalist revolutions in Latin America.

No consensus exists as to when the period of the French Revolutionary Wars ended and that of the Napoleonic Wars began. Possible dates include:

The Napoleonic Wars ended following Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo (18 June 1815) and the Second Treaty of Paris (signed 20 November 1815). Some sources (chiefly in the United Kingdom) occasionally refer to the nearly continuous period of warfare from April 20, 1792, until November 20, 1815 collectively as the Great French War.