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The Napoleonic Wars

Alexander Mikaberidze

Were the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars one great conflict, and how did it reshape Europe and the wider world?

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Author: Alexander Mikaberidze

Why read it

You will see the wars as a global struggle across Europe, the Middle East, India and the Americas
You will understand how mobilising whole societies, not just armies, changed the scale of war
You will learn how Napoleon's ambitions reshaped faraway places, from South America to the Middle East

Who it is for

A reader who knows Napoleon only from Waterloo and movies
A student comparing the Napoleonic era with modern world wars
A strategist curious how coalitions form and fall apart

Contents

The Napoleonic Wars
Preface
The Napoleonic Wars
Chapter 1 The Revolutionary Prelude
Chapter 2 The Eighteenth-Century International Order
Chapter 3 The War of the First Coalition, 1792–1797
Chapter 4 The Making of La Grande Nation, 1797–1802
Chapter 5 The Second Coalition War and the Origins of the “Great Game”
Chapter 6 The Rites of Peace, 1801–1802
Chapter 7 The Road to War, 1802–1803
Chapter 8 The Rupture, 1803
Chapter 9 The Elephant Against the Whale: France and Britain at War, 1803–1804
Chapter 10 The Emperor’s Conquest, 1805–1807
Chapter 11 “War Through Other Means”: Europe and the Continental System
Chapter 12 The Struggle for Portugal and Spain, 1807–1812
Chapter 13 The Grand Empire, 1807–1812
Chapter 14 The Emperor’s Last Triumph
Chapter 15 The Northern Question, 1807–1811
Chapter 16 “An Empire Besieged”: The Ottomans and the Napoleonic Wars
Chapter 17 The Qajar Connection: Iran and the European Powers, 1804–1814
Chapter 18 Britain’s Expeditionary Warfare, 1805–1810
Chapter 19 Britain’s Eastern Empire, 1800–1815
Chapter 20 The Western Question? Struggle for the Americas, 1808–1815
Chapter 21 The Turning Point, 1812
Chapter 22 The Fall of the French Empire
Chapter 23 The War and Peace, 1814–1815
Chapter 24 The Aftermath of the Great War
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