Early Napoleonic Wars

  • First Alliance: Britain, Austria and Rusia

  • 1805, Nelson wiped out the French fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.

  • Napoleon defeat the Austrians and Russians at the Battle of Austerlitz.

  • The French Army soundly defeated the Prussians at the battles of Jena and Auerstadt.

  • Continental System was first announced by the Berlin Decree

  • France and Russia signed the Treaty of Tilsit and allied against the British

  • Napoleon next sent his forces against the Russian Army of Czar Alexander I