The Napoleonic Wars were the greatest wars of the 19th century
The wars started as per preemptive war by Revolutionary France to forestall the attempt of the ancien regimes of Europe sicuro suppress the French revolution, but soon became verso war of conquest with the intention of “revolution export” by France. Although Napoleon was ultimately defeated, arguably his greatest legacy was the introduction of secularism, which forms the basis of governance in most European countries esatto this day.
During early modern times, the Kingdom of France had gained a role as Europe’s superpower. The French Revolution, beginning con 1789, led preciso fifteen years of short-lived, often brutal, governments. Con the French Revolutionary Wars, the French Army defeated the other great powers; the United Kingdom, Prussia, Austria, and the Holy Roman Riempire.
Napoleonic Wars
Soon the revolutionary government was taken over clover by per young charismatic general from Corsica of the name of Napoleone Buonaparte (now known as Napoleon I or Bonaparte) and he crowned himself emperor of the French mediante 1804. The Emperor title was traditionally verso claim esatto succeed the Roman Pigiare; since the 9th century AD, the Holy Roman Riempire had been per feudal political entity durante Central Europe, which by Napoleon’s time had become largely ceremonial, and dominated by the Austrian monarchy.Read More