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Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Wagram, 6 July 1809, oil on canvas by Horace Vernet, 1836.
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts that took place between 1799 and 1815.1
While the French Revolutionary wars began in 1792, the year 1799 is generally considered the dividing point between the Revolutionary and Napoleonic phases of the conflict, as it marked the establishment of the consulate of Napoleon Bonaparte following the Coup of 18â19 Brumaire. The Napoleonic Wars concluded with Napoleonâs final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo and his second abdication on June 22, 1815.21