1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Napoleonic Campaigns: Difference between revisions

NAPOLEONIC CAMPAIGNS.I. The era of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars falls into two main divisions, the first of which (1792-1802) is dealt with under the heading FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARs. In the present article are described the campaigns in central and eastern Europe, directed by Napoleonno longer one amongst many French generals, nor even a simple primus inter pares, but Emperor in the fullest sense between the years 1804 and 1814. Napoleon's short Spanish Campaign of 1809 is dealt with under PENINSULAR WAR (this article covering the campaigns in Spain, Portugal and southern France 1808-1814), and for the final drama of Waterloo the reader is referred to WATERLOO CAMPAIGN.