Napoleonic Wars
Napoleonic WarsThe campaigns carried out between Napoleon I and the European powers, including Britain ( 1796 – 1815 ). The first great Italian campaign ( 1796 ) under Napoleon I secured a series of decisive victories for the French over the Austrians in northern Italy. In 1798 he led an expedition to Egypt, but the British fleet under Admiral Nelson destroyed the French fleet in Aboukir Bay. In 1799 Napoleon I led an army over the Alps to win the Battle of Marengo ( 1800 ) over the Austrians. Britain, apprehensive of Napoleon's threat in the Mediterranean and in continental Europe, was by 1803 once more at war with France. Nelson...
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