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The French Indian War
The French and the British were fighting over control of the Ohio River Valley The war lasted 9 years, and cost the British a lot of money. The British won, but were in a significant debt. In order to pay off the debt, they start taxing the colonists. sparking the first dispute between the colonies and the crown. -
The Battle of Valmy
This war also known as the Cannonade of Valmy, was the first major victory by the army of France during the Revolutionary Wars that followed the French Revolution. The battle took place on September 20 1792 as Prussian troops commanded by the Duke of Brunswick attempted to march on Paris. Generals Francois Kellermann and Charles Dumouriez stopped the advance near the northern village of Valmy in Champagne- Ardenne. -
The French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and several other countries. -
The battle of Fleurus
On June 26 1794, was an engagement during the War of the First Coalition, between the army of the First French Republic, under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, and the Coalition army (Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburg monarchy), commanded by Prince Joasis of Coburg, in the most significant battle of the Flanders Campaign in the Low Countries during the French Revolutionary Wars. Both sides had forces in the area of around 80,000 men but the French were able to concentrate their troops -
The Battle of Arcole
The battle of Arcole in November 15 1796 was fought between French and Austrian forces 25 kilometers southeast of Verona during the War of the First Coalition, a part of the French Revolution Wars. The battle saw a bold maneuver by Napoleon Bonaparte's French army of Italy to outflank the Austrian army led by Jozsef Alvinczi and cut off its line of retreat. The French victory proved to be a highly significant event during the third Austrian attempt to lift the siege of Mantua. -
Siege of Mantua
During the siege of Mantua, which lasted from June 4th 1796 to February 1797 with a short break, French forces under the overall command of Napoleon Bonaparte besieged and blockaded a large Austrian garrison at Mantua for many months until it surrendered. This eventual surrender, together with the heavy losses incurred during four unsuccessful relief attempts, led indirectly to the Austrians suing for peace in 1797. The siege occurred during the War of the First Coalition. -
The Battle of the Nile
This war was also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay. French was a major naval battle fought between Britain's Royal Navy and the French Republic Navy at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast off the Nile Delta of Egypt between 1-3 August 1798. The battle was the climax of a Naval Campaign that had raged across the Mediterranean during the previous three months, as a large French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria carrying an expeditionary force under General Napoleon Bonaparte. -
The Second Battle of Zurich
The Second Battle of Zurich on September 15-26 1799 was a victory by the Republican French army in Switzerland led by Andre Massena over a Russian force commanded by Alexander Korsakov near Zurich . It broke the stalemate that had resulted from the First Battle of Zurich three months earlier and led to the withdrawal of Russia from the Second Coalition. Most of the fighting took place on both banks of the river Limmat up to the gates of Zurich, and within the city itself. -
The Battle of Marengo
The Battle of Marengo was fought on June 14 1800 between French forces under the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy. Near the end of the day, the French overcame General Michael Von Melas surprise attack, drove the Austrians out of Italy and consolidated Bonaparte's political position in Paris as First Consul of France in the wake of his coup d'etat the previous November.