Napoleonic-wars


plural noun
1.
the intermittent wars (1796–1815) waged by France principally against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia.
plural noun
1.
the series of wars fought between France, under Napoleon Bonaparte, and (principally) Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, and Austria either alone or in alliances (1799–1815)

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