Napoleonic Wars Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
1803–1815 wars involving the French Empire
About Napoleonic Wars
—Napoleon Bonaparte During early modern times, theKingdom of Francehad gained a role as Europe's superpower. The French Revolution, beginning in 1789, led to fifteen years of short-lived, often brutal, governments. In the French Revolutionary Wars, the French Army defeated the other great powers; the United Kingdom,Prussia, Austria, and theHoly Roman Empire. Soon the revolutionary government was taken over by a young charismatic general from Corsica of the name of Napoleone Buonaparte (now known as Napoleon I or Bonaparte) and he crowned himself emperor of the French in 1804. The Emperor title was traditionally a claim to succeed theRoman Empire; since the 9th century AD, the Holy Roman Empire had been a feudal political entity in Central Europe, which by Napoleon's time had become largel
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