French Revolutionary Wars

April 20, 1792 – March 25, 1802

Result First Coalition: French victory

Wars between revolutionary France and coalitions of European monarchies. France survived, expanded to the Rhine and into Italy, and the wars made Napoleon's career.

Battles and events 94

April 20, 1792 – October 18, 1797
War of the First Coalition French victory; Treaty of The Hague, Treaty of Paris, Peaces of Basel, Treaty of Tolentino, Treaty of Campo Formio Western Europe George III, William Pitt the Younger, Louis XVI
April 30, 1792
Battle of Quiévrain (1792) French victory – 1st battle Quiévrain Johann Peter Beaulieu
August 24 – October 16, 1792
August 29, 1792
September 20, 1792
November 6, 1792
November 6, 1792 – June 7, 1795
November 19 – December 1, 1792
Siege of Namur (1792) French victory Namur
March 18, 1793
May 19, 1793
July 17, 1793
July 18, 1793
August 9 – October 9, 1793
Siege of Lyon French Republican victory Lyon
August 29 – December 19, 1793
Siege of Toulon (1793) French Republican victory Siege of Toulon (1793) Napoleon, Federico Gravina, Sidney Smith
September 8, 1793
September 13, 1793
September 17, 1793
September 22, 1793
October 16, 1793
May 2 – June 1, 1794
May 22, 1794
June 1, 1794
June 26, 1794
July 13, 1794
September 14–15, 1794
September 18, 1794
September 21, 1794
November 22, 1794 – June 7, 1795
March 13–14, 1795
Battle of Genoa (1795) Anglo-Neapolitan victory Gulf of Genoa
April 5, 1795
June 10 – September 15, 1795
Invasion of the Cape Colony British victory Dutch Cape Colony George Elphinstone
June 16–17, 1795
June 23, 1795
July 13, 1795
Battle of the Hyères Islands Anglo-Neapolitan victory Îles d'Hyères Horatio Nelson
April 10, 1796 – October 17, 1797
April 12, 1796
Battle of Montenotte French victory Battle of Montenotte Napoleon, André Masséna, Eugen von Argentau
April 21, 1796
May 10, 1796
May 30, 1796
Battle of Borghetto French victory Valeggio sul Mincio Napoleon, André Masséna, Pierre Augereau
July 4, 1796 – February 2, 1797
July 9, 1796
August 3–4, 1796
August 5, 1796
August 24, 1796
September 3, 1796
September 4, 1796
October 2, 1796
October 19, 1796
November 6, 1796
Second Battle of Bassano Austrian victory Bassano del Grappa Napoleon, Antal Lipthay, André Masséna
November 12, 1796
November 15–17, 1796
Battle of Arcole French victory Battle of Arcole Napoleon, André Masséna, Jean Lannes
January 13–16, 1797
January 14–15, 1797
January 25, 1797
Action of 25 January 1797 Spanish victory Gulf of Cádiz
January 28, 1797
Bali Strait incident British victory Bali Strait
February 14, 1797
March 21–23, 1797
May 2, 1797
June 1797
October 11, 1797
October 18, 1797
Treaty of Campo Formio Campoformido
January 1798
January 28, 1798 – May 28, 1799
French invasion of Switzerland French victorySwitzerland becomes a French client state Old Swiss Confederacy Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune
May 24 – September 24, 1798
June 28, 1798 – March 25, 1802
July 1, 1798 – September 2, 1801
July 7, 1798 – September 30, 1800
Quasi-War Convention of 1800 Atlantic Ocean John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Napoleon
July 21, 1798
Battle of the Pyramids French victory Battle of the Pyramids Napoleon, Louis André Bon, Murad Bey
August 1–3, 1798
September 2, 1798 – September 4, 1800
October 12 – December 5, 1798
Peasants' War (1798) Southern Netherlands
October 12, 1798
January 27, 1799
March 20 – May 21, 1799
Siege of Acre (1799) Anglo-Ottoman victory Siege of Acre (1799) Napoleon, Jezzar Pasha, Haim Farhi
March 26, 1799
April 27, 1799
Battle of Cassano (1799) Austro-Russian victory Battle of Cassano (1799) Pyotr Bagration, Josef Philipp Vukassovich, Michael von Melas
June 17–19, 1799
July 25, 1799
Battle of Abukir (1799) French victory Battle of Abukir (1799) Napoleon, Joachim Murat, Jean Lannes
August 15, 1799
September 19, 1799
September 25–26, 1799
February 18, 1800
March 31, 1800
April 20 – June 4, 1800
May 9, 1800
Battle of Biberach (1800) French victory Biberach an der Riß Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Paul Kray
June 14, 1800
Battle of Marengo French victory Battle of Marengo Napoleon, Jean Lannes, Louis Desaix
December 3, 1800
1801 – 1814
March 13, 1801
March 21, 1801
Battle of Alexandria (1801) British victory Battle of Alexandria (1801) Sidney Smith, John Moore, Ralph Abercromby
April 1801 – April 19, 1801
April 2, 1801
Battle of Copenhagen (1801) British victory Battle of Copenhagen (1801) Horatio Nelson, Hyde Parker
May 1801 – June 1801
August 17 – September 2, 1801

Key commanders

Coalition 102

William Pitt the Younger belligerent leader Paul I of Russia belligerent leader Selim III belligerent leader Horatio Nelson Admiral, Destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 Frederick William II of Prussia belligerent leader Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor belligerent leader Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen belligerent leader Victor Amadeus III belligerent leader József Alvinczi military commander Michael von Melas military commander François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt military commander Prince Josias of Coburg military commander Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé military commander Henri de la Rochejaquelein military commander Jacques Cathelineau military commander Eugen von Argentau military commander Mathias Rukavina von Boynograd military commander Karl Philipp Sebottendorf military commander Josef Philipp Vukassovich military commander Gerhard Rosselmini military commander Giovanni Marchese di Provera military commander Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz military commander Prince Friedrich Franz Xaver of Hohenzollern-Hechingen military commander Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser military commander Anton Ferdinand Mittrowsky military commander Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko military commander Antal Lipthay military commander Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen military commander Murad Bey military commander Ibrahim Bey military commander Jezzar Pasha military commander Haim Farhi military commander Sidney Smith military commander John Moore military commander Ralph Abercromby military commander John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore military commander George Elphinstone military commander Anton von Zach military commander Archduke John of Austria military commander Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel military commander Friedrich Wilhelm, Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg military commander Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen military commander Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany military commander Wilhelm von Freytag military commander William I of the Netherlands military commander Federico Gravina military commander Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave military commander Juan de Lángara military commander Charles O'Hara military commander Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood military commander Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe military commander Wilhelm von Wartensleben military commander Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour military commander John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent military commander William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock military commander Sir Charles Thompson, 1st Baronet military commander Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan military commander Pyotr Bagration military commander Mikhail Miloradovich military commander Alexander Suvorov military commander Adrian Denisov military commander Andrey Rosenberg military commander Heinrich Joseph Johann von Bellegarde military commander Otto Wilhelm von Derfelden military commander Paul Kray military commander Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov military commander Alexey Ivanovich Gorchakov military commander Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken military commander Hyde Parker military commander Muhammad Ali of Egypt military commander George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie military commander Gordon Drummond military commander Kör Yusuf Ziyaüddin Pasha military commander Michelangelo Alessandro Colli-Marchi military commander Johann Peter Beaulieu military commander Karl Mack von Leiberich military commander Prince Frederick of Orange-Nassau belligerent leader Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth military commander Paul Davidovich military commander Anton Schübirz von Chobinin military commander William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland belligerent leader Spencer Perceval belligerent leader Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington belligerent leader Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool belligerent leader Gustav IV Adolf belligerent leader Charles XIII belligerent leader Blasius Kolumban von Bender military commander Antonio Ricardos y Carrillo de Albornoz military commander John Adams belligerent leader Alexander Hamilton belligerent leader William Bainbridge belligerent leader Thomas Truxtun military commander Stephen Decatur military commander Benjamin Stoddert military commander Francesco Saverio Caruana military commander Emmanuele Vitale military commander Vincenzo Borg military commander Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet military commander Johann Hermann von Fersen military commander Manley Dixon military commander Jerónimo Girón-Moctezuma, Marquis de las Amarillas military commander George Montagu military commander

France 67

Louis XVI belligerent leader Maximilien Robespierre belligerent leader Louis Philippe I military commander Napoleon General, Won the Italian campaign of 1796-1797 and led the Egyptian expedition Jean-Baptiste Jourdan military commander André Masséna military commander Jacques Pierre Brissot military commander Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras military commander François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers Vice-Admiral, Commanded the French fleet; killed Amédée Emmanuel Francois Laharpe military commander Claude Dallemagne military commander Jean Lannes military commander Luis Alejandro Berthier military commander Pierre Augereau military commander Barthélémy Catherine Joubert military commander Charles Leclerc military commander Louis André Bon military commander Louis Desaix military commander Jean Reynier military commander Jean Baptiste Kléber military commander Eugène de Beauharnais military commander Joachim Murat military commander Géraud Duroc military commander Jacques-François Menou military commander François Lanusse military commander Jean-de-Dieu Soult military commander Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno military commander Jean Victor Marie Moreau military commander Charles François Dumouriez military commander François Christophe de Kellermann military commander Jean Nicolas Houchard military commander Lazare Carnot military commander Jacques Ferrand military commander Jacques François Dugommier military commander Jean François Carteaux military commander Louis Antoine de Saint-Just military commander Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse military commander Michel de Beaupuy military commander Juan Joaquín Moreno de Mondragón military commander José de Córdoba y Ramos military commander Jan Willem de Winter military commander Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer military commander Paul Grenier military commander Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald military commander Jean-Baptiste Salme military commander Emmanuel de Grouchy military commander Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr military commander Catherine-Dominique Pérignon military commander Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier military commander Jean Thomas Guillaume Lorge military commander Pierre-Charles Villeneuve military commander Louis-Nicolas Davout military commander Jean-Andoche Junot military commander Louis Bonaparte military commander Jean-Baptiste Bessières military commander Herman Willem Daendels military commander Joseph Souham military commander Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune military commander Auguste de Marmont military commander Louis-Charles de Flers military commander Victor Hugues military commander Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois military commander Jean-Baptiste Perrée military commander Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert military commander François Séverin Marceau military commander Ignacio María de Álava military commander Eustache Charles d'Aoust military commander

Denmark–Norway 3

First Coalition 7

French First Republic 7

Holy Roman Empire 10

Prussia 2

Great Britain 5

Spain 1

Other 1