A report on French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars (Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution.
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Napoleon
26 linksNapoleon, also Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), and later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.
French Revolution
20 linksPeriod of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799.
Period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799.
Opposition from external powers like Austria, Britain, and Prussia resulted in the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in April 1792.
Napoleonic Wars
16 linksThe Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions.
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions.
The wars stemmed from the unresolved disputes associated with the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars consisting of the War of the First Coalition (1792–1797) and the War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802).
Siege of Mantua (1796–1797)
14 linksDuring the siege of Mantua, which lasted from 4 July 1796 to 2 February 1797 with a short break, French forces under the overall command of Napoleon Bonaparte besieged and blockaded a large Austrian garrison at Mantua for many months until it surrendered.
During the siege of Mantua, which lasted from 4 July 1796 to 2 February 1797 with a short break, French forces under the overall command of Napoleon Bonaparte besieged and blockaded a large Austrian garrison at Mantua for many months until it surrendered.
The siege occurred during the War of the First Coalition, which is part of the French Revolutionary Wars.
French Revolutionary Army
6 linksThe French Revolutionary Army (Armée révolutionnaire française) was the French land force that fought the French Revolutionary Wars from 1792 to 1804.
Treaty of Amiens
7 linksThe Treaty of Amiens (la paix d'Amiens, ) temporarily ended hostilities between France and the United Kingdom at the end of the War of the Second Coalition.
The Treaty of Amiens (la paix d'Amiens, ) temporarily ended hostilities between France and the United Kingdom at the end of the War of the Second Coalition.
It marked the end of the French Revolutionary Wars; after a short peace it set the stage for the Napoleonic Wars.
Battle of Hohenlinden
6 linksThe Battle of Hohenlinden was fought on 3 December 1800 during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Battle of Valmy
5 linksThe Battle of Valmy, also known as the Cannonade of Valmy, was the first major victory by the army of France during the Revolutionary Wars that followed the French Revolution.
Louis XVI
6 linksThe last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
The last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
His unsuccessful flight to Varennes in June 1791, four months before the constitutional monarchy was declared, seemed to justify the rumors that the king tied his hopes of political salvation to the prospects of foreign intervention.
Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars
4 linksThe Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) were a series of conflicts fought principally in Northern Italy between the French Revolutionary Army and a Coalition of Austria, Russia, Piedmont-Sardinia, and a number of other Italian states.