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
August 24 – October 16, 1792
Siege of Thionville (1792)
French victory
Thionville
Friedrich Wilhelm, Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg
August 29, 1792
Battle of Verdun (1792)
Prussian victory
Verdun
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
September 20, 1792
November 6, 1792
Battle of Jemappes
French victory
Battle of Jemappes
Louis Philippe I, François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Charles François Dumouriez
November 6, 1792 – June 7, 1795
November 19 – December 1, 1792
March 18, 1793
Battle of Neerwinden (1793)
Coalition victory
Battle of Neerwinden (1793)
Louis Philippe I, Charles François Dumouriez, Prince Josias of Coburg
May 19, 1793
Battle of Mas Deu
Spanish victory
Trouillas
Antonio Ricardos y Carrillo de Albornoz, Louis-Charles de Flers
July 17, 1793
Battle of Perpignan
French victory
Perpignan
Antonio Ricardos y Carrillo de Albornoz, Louis-Charles de Flers
July 18, 1793
Battle of Vihiers
Vendean victory
Vihiers
Louis-Nicolas Davout, Luis Alejandro Berthier, Jacques-François Menou
August 9 – October 9, 1793
August 29 – December 19, 1793
Siege of Toulon (1793)
French Republican victory
Siege of Toulon (1793)
Napoleon, Federico Gravina, Sidney Smith
September 8, 1793
Battle of Hondschoote
French victory
Battle of Hondschoote
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Jean Nicolas Houchard, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
September 13, 1793
September 17, 1793
September 22, 1793
Battle of Truillas
Spanish victory
Trouillas
Antonio Ricardos y Carrillo de Albornoz, Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert
October 16, 1793
Battle of Wattignies
French victory
Battle of Wattignies
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Prince Josias of Coburg
May 2 – June 1, 1794
May 22, 1794
June 1, 1794
Glorious First of June
Glorious First of June
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse
June 26, 1794
Battle of Fleurus (1794)
French victory
Battle of Fleurus (1794)
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Jean Baptiste Kléber, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
July 13, 1794
Battle of Trippstadt
French victory
Vosges Mountains
Friedrich Wilhelm, Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg, Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
September 14–15, 1794
September 18, 1794
September 21, 1794
November 22, 1794 – June 7, 1795
March 13–14, 1795
April 5, 1795
June 10 – September 15, 1795
June 16–17, 1795
June 23, 1795
July 13, 1795
April 10, 1796 – October 17, 1797
Italian campaign of 1796–1797
French victory
Mantua
Napoleon, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, József Alvinczi
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
July 4, 1796 – February 2, 1797
Siege of Mantua (1796–1797)
French victory
Siege of Mantua (1796–1797)
Napoleon, Claude Dallemagne, Josef Philipp Vukassovich
July 9, 1796
Battle of Ettlingen
French victory
Ettlingen
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Jean Victor Marie Moreau
August 3–4, 1796
Battle of Lonato
French victory
Lonato del Garda
Napoleon, André Masséna, Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser
August 5, 1796
Battle of Castiglione
French victory
Solferino
Napoleon, Auguste de Marmont, Karl Philipp Sebottendorf
August 24, 1796
Battle of Amberg
Austrian victory
Battle of Amberg
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Wilhelm von Wartensleben
September 3, 1796
Battle of Würzburg
Austrian victory
Battle of Würzburg
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
September 4, 1796
Battle of Rovereto
French victory
Rovereto
Napoleon, André Masséna, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno
October 2, 1796
Battle of Biberach (1796)
French victory
Battle of Biberach (1796)
Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour
October 19, 1796
Battle of Emmendingen
Austrian victory
Battle of Emmendingen
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Wilhelm von Wartensleben
November 6, 1796
November 12, 1796
November 15–17, 1796
January 13–16, 1797
January 14–15, 1797
Battle of Rivoli
French victory
Battle of Rivoli
Napoleon, Josef Philipp Vukassovich, Barthélémy Catherine Joubert
January 25, 1797
January 28, 1797
February 14, 1797
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)
British victory
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)
Horatio Nelson, John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock
March 21–23, 1797
Battle of Tarvis (1797)
French victory
Tarvisio
Napoleon, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko
May 2, 1797
June 1797
October 11, 1797
Battle of Camperdown
British victory
Battle of Camperdown
Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Jan Willem de Winter
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
War of the Second Coalition
French victory
Italian Peninsula
John Adams, George III, William Pitt the Younger
July 1, 1798 – September 2, 1801
French campaign in Egypt and Syria
Anglo-Ottoman victory
Cairo
Selim III, Horatio Nelson, Muhammad Ali of Egypt
July 7, 1798 – September 30, 1800
July 21, 1798
August 1–3, 1798
Battle of the Nile
British victory
Aboukir Bay, Egypt
Horatio Nelson, François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers
September 2, 1798 – September 4, 1800
Siege of Malta (1798–1800)
Allied victory
Valletta
Horatio Nelson, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Francesco Saverio Caruana
October 12 – December 5, 1798
Peasants' War (1798)
Southern Netherlands
October 12, 1798
January 27, 1799
March 20 – May 21, 1799
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
Battle of Trebbia (1799)
Russo-Austrian victory
Battle of Trebbia (1799)
Pyotr Bagration, Michael von Melas, Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz
July 25, 1799
August 15, 1799
Battle of Novi (1799)
Coalition victory
Battle of Novi (1799)
Emmanuel de Grouchy, Pyotr Bagration, Barthélémy Catherine Joubert
September 19, 1799
Battle of Bergen (1799)
Franco-Batavian victory
Bergen
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Herman Willem Daendels, Johann Hermann von Fersen
September 25–26, 1799
Second Battle of Zurich
French victory
Second Battle of Zurich
André Masséna, Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, Jean Thomas Guillaume Lorge
February 18, 1800
March 31, 1800
April 20 – June 4, 1800
Siege of Genoa (1800)
Anglo-Austrian victory
Siege of Genoa (1800)
André Masséna, Michael von Melas, Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz
May 9, 1800
June 14, 1800
December 3, 1800
Battle of Hohenlinden
French victory
Battle of Hohenlinden
Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Archduke John of Austria
1801 – 1814
English Wars (Scandinavia)
Anglo-Swedish victory
Sweden
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Spencer Perceval, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
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
May 1801 – June 1801
August 17 – September 2, 1801
Siege of Alexandria (1801)
British victory
Alexandria
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore, Jacques-François Menou
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
George III
belligerent leader
William Pitt the Younger
belligerent leader
Frederick William II of Prussia
belligerent leader
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
belligerent leader
Charles IV of Spain
belligerent leader
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
belligerent leader
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
belligerent leader
French First Republic 7
Holy Roman Empire 10
John Adams
belligerent leader
George III
belligerent leader
William Pitt the Younger
belligerent leader
Paul I of Russia
belligerent leader
Selim III
belligerent leader
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
belligerent leader
Charles Emmanuel IV
belligerent leader
Maria Carolina of Austria
belligerent leader
Ferdinand III of Tuscany
military commander
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
belligerent leader





