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16 hours ago · The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), and produced a ...
- War of The Third Coalition
The War of the Third Coalition (French: Guerre de la...
- Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took...
- War of The Fourth Coalition
One point of contention was the fate of Hanover, a German...
- Peninsular War
The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict...
- French Invasion of Russia
The military machine Napoleon the artilleryman had created...
- War of The Seventh Coalition
Background Napoleon's rise and fall. The French...
- War of The First Coalition
France suffered reverses (Battle of Neerwinden, 18 March...
- Frederick William III
Frederick William III (German: Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3...
- War of The Third Coalition
5 hours ago · 1870-1940 - third republic. Ended with the Nazi invasion of France in 1940 when the republic was suspended and the period of the occupation and Vichy government began. 1946-1958 - fourth republic ...
16 hours ago · In quick succession, the Third Republic was established to replace the monarchy, the Prussians laid siege to Paris for more than four grueling months of starvation and deprivation, and, later, for a two-month period in 1871, the revolutionary Paris Commune seized power in the city before being brutally and violently crushed by the National Guard.
16 hours ago · According to Eurostat, France's public deficit increased from 4.8% of GDP in 2022 to 5.5% in 2023. The EU executive body stated that while the government's efforts to curb the public debt have ...
16 hours ago · The far left in France is the objective ally of a far right that, despite all its efforts, still reeks of fascism. "I was born in the 1930s, I'm going to die in the 1930s," said the elderly mother of one of my American friends to her son recently. In just over two centuries, America and France have moved from arguing over the origins of the ...
11 minutes ago · France’s National Rally surged into the lead in the first round of legislative elections, according to results released early Monday, bringing the far-right party to the brink of power and dealing a major blow to President Emmanuel Macron’s centrists in an election that could set the country, and Europe, on a starkly different course.
7 hours ago · In defeating the British Empire and giving birth to a new nation, the American Revolution made a huge impact on the world. Thirteen colonies on the Atlantic Coast were victorious from being controlled by a constitutional monarchy. We rightfully celebrate how they won our independence and established a republic that still endures.
