French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Part of the Second Hundred Years' War and aftermath of the French Revolution

Click an image to load the appropriate article. Left to right, top to bottom: battles of Toulon, Arcole, the Pyramids, Marengo, Trafalgar, Austerlitz, Berlin, Wagram, Leipzig, Paris, Waterloo
Date20 April 1792  20 November 1815 (23 years and 7 months)
Location
Europe, overseas colonies of European states
Result Coalition victory
Belligerents
Casualties and losses
French
  • 1,000,000 dead, wounded, missing, captured, or deserted (1792–1801)
  • 306,000 killed (1805–1815)
Austrian
  • 514,700 killed, wounded, or captured (1792–1797)
  • 440,000 killed, wounded, or captured (1799–1801)
  • 396,000 killed in action (1805–1815)
Prussian
  • 154,000 killed in action
Russian
  • 299,000 killed in action
Total 1,803,700 killed, wounded or captured
War of the Fourth Coalition
700,000 deaths
War of the Fifth Coalition
300,000 deaths
Peninsular War
2,400,000 deaths
War of the Sixth Coalition
450,000 deaths
War of the Seventh Coalition
60,000 deaths
900km
559miles
9
Waterloo
8
France
7
6
Austria
5
Prussia
4
Germany
3
Italy
2
Egypt
1
1
First Coalition: France 1792:...Toulon...
2
Second Coalition: Egypt 1798:...Pyramids...
3
Second Coalition: Italy 1799:...Marengo...
4
Third Coalition: Germany 1803:...Austerlitz...
5
Fourth Coalition: Prussia 1806:...Jena...
6
Fifth Coalition: Austria 1809:...Wagram...
7
Sixth Coalition: Germany 1813:...Leipzig...
8
Sixth Coalition: France 1814:...Paris...
9
Seventh Coalition: Belgium 1815:...Waterloo...

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (sometimes called the Great French War or the Wars of the Revolution and the Empire) were a series of conflicts between the French and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards, the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France – later the First French Empire – and its allies between 1792 and 1815:

Although the Coalition Wars are the most prominent subset of conflicts of this era, some French Revolutionary Wars such as the French invasion of Switzerland , and some Napoleonic Wars such as the French invasion of Russia and the Peninsular War, are not counted amongst the "Coalition Wars" proper.