French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
April 20, 1792 – November 20, 1815
Result Coalition victory
Revolutionary and then Napoleonic France fought shifting coalitions of European powers for more than two decades. The wars spread French power across Europe and ended with Napoleon's defeat and the Congress of Vienna.
Battles 10
April 20, 1792 – March 25, 1802
French Revolutionary Wars
First Coalition: French victory
Low Countries
William Pitt the Younger, Paul I of Russia, Selim III
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
August 17, 1796
August 18, 1796 – July 1808
Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808)
Treaty of Amiens
English Channel
George III, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Horatio Nelson
June 28, 1798 – March 25, 1802
War of the Second Coalition
French victory
Italian Peninsula
John Adams, George III, William Pitt the Younger
May 18, 1803 – November 20, 1815
Napoleonic Wars
Coalition victory
Central Europe
George III, William Pitt the Younger, Henry Addington
1805 – 1806
War of the Third Coalition
French victory
Central Europe
William Pitt the Younger, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Alexander I of Russia
April 10 – October 14, 1809
War of the Fifth Coalition
French victory
Central Europe
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Spencer Perceval, Alexander I of Russia
1813 – 1814
War of the Sixth Coalition
Coalition victory
Central Europe
George IV, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Alexander I of Russia
July 26 – August 14, 1814
Key commanders
Coalition 45
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
George III
belligerent leader
Henry Addington
belligerent leader
Spencer Perceval
belligerent leader
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
British commander, Led the Peninsular War and won at Waterloo
Alexander I of Russia
Emperor of Russia, Led Russia against Napoleon and into Paris in 1814
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
belligerent leader
Klemens von Metternich
Foreign Minister of Austria, Brought Austria into the final coalition
Mikhail Kutuzov
Russian field marshal, Commanded the Russian army in 1812
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Prussian field marshal, Led the Prussian army in 1813-1815
Frederick William III of Prussia
belligerent leader
Ferdinand VII
belligerent leader
Charles XIV John
belligerent leader
Gustav IV Adolf
belligerent leader
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
belligerent leader
Karl Mack von Leiberich
belligerent leader
Pyotr Bagration
belligerent leader
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
belligerent leader
Archduke John of Austria
military commander
George IV
belligerent leader
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
belligerent leader
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
belligerent leader
Levin August von Bennigsen
belligerent leader
Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg
belligerent leader
William I of the Netherlands
belligerent leader
Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg
belligerent leader
Mikhail Miloradovich
belligerent leader
Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz
belligerent leader
Carl Philipp von Wrede
belligerent leader
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony
belligerent leader
Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
belligerent leader
France 8
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
French Empire and allies 27
Napoleon
Emperor of the French, Led France in all the major campaigns
Joachim Murat
military commander
Eugène de Beauharnais
military commander
Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
belligerent leader
Louis Bonaparte
military commander
Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck
military commander
Charles IV of Spain
belligerent leader
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
belligerent leader
Michel Ney
belligerent leader
Louis-Nicolas Davout
belligerent leader
Charles XIV John
military commander
Auguste de Marmont
belligerent leader
André Masséna
belligerent leader
Jean Lannes
belligerent leader
Pierre Augereau
military commander
Jean-de-Dieu Soult
belligerent leader
Carl Philipp von Wrede
belligerent leader
Jean-Baptiste Bessières
military commander
Joseph Bonaparte
belligerent leader
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
belligerent leader
Luis Alejandro Berthier
belligerent leader
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald
military commander
Nicolas Oudinot
belligerent leader
Józef Poniatowski
belligerent leader
Dominique Vandamme
belligerent leader
Jérôme Bonaparte
belligerent leader
Frederick VI of Denmark
belligerent leader
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 6
Great Britain 5
Spain 7
Napoleon
military commander
Charles IV of Spain
belligerent leader
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
belligerent leader
Federico Gravina
belligerent leader
José de Córdoba y Ramos
military commander
Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras
military commander
Jose de Mazarredo y Salazar
military commander
Sweden 2
Norway 1
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
French First Empire 9
Alexander I of Russia
belligerent leader
Napoleon
belligerent leader
Joachim Murat
belligerent leader
Eugène de Beauharnais
belligerent leader
Józef Poniatowski
belligerent leader
Jérôme Bonaparte
belligerent leader
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony
belligerent leader
Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
belligerent leader
Louis Bonaparte
belligerent leader





