Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts declared against Napoleon's French Empire and changing sets of European allies by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionized European armies
Napoleon I
the nineteenth century, the French Empire under Napoleon engaged in a series of conflicts—the Napoleonic Wars —involving every major European power. After a streak of victories, France secured a dominant position in continental Europe, and Napoleon maintained the French sphere of influence
Grande Armée
multinational forces gathered by Napoleon I in his campaigns of the early nineteenth century (see Napoleonic Wars ). [ 2 ] The first Grande Armée consisted of six corps under the command of Napoleon's marshals and senior generals. When Napoleon discovered that Russian and Austrian armies
Hundred Days
men each into the field to end his rule. [ 5 ] This set the stage for the last conflict in the Napoleonic Wars , the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo , [ 6 ] the restoration of the French monarchy for the second time and the permanent exile of Napoleon to the distant island
