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The War of the Third Coalition [note 1] (French: Guerre de la Troisième Coalition) was a European conflict lasting from 1805 to 1806 and was the first conflict of the Napoleonic Wars. During the war, France and its client states under Napoleon I and its ally Spain opposed an alliance, the Third Coalition, which was made up of the United ...
Prussian resistance to France's growing military power in Central Europe led to the War of the Fourth Coalition in 1806. After eliminating an Austrian army during the Ulm campaign , French forces seized Vienna in November 1805. [ 14 ]
This is a list of sieges, land and naval battles of the War of the Third Coalition (18 May 1803 / 25 September 1805 – 26 December 1805 / 18 July 1806, depending on periodisation). It includes: the Trafalgar campaign (March–November 1805); the Ulm campaign (25 September – 20 October 1805);
War of the Second Coalition (November 1798 – March 1802) War of the Third Coalition (April 1805 – July 1806) War of the Fourth Coalition (October 1806 – July 1807) War of the Fifth Coalition (April – October 1809) War of the Sixth Coalition (March 1813 – May 1814) War of the Seventh Coalition, also known as the Hundred Days (March ...
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).
The Battle of Forano took place during the War of the Third Coalition on 2 November 1805 which saw a decisive French victory by the Armée d'Italie under the command of Marshal André Masséna and General Jean-Baptiste Solignac over the Austrian troops led by Major general Karl Hillinger.
The Hanover Expedition, also known as the Weser Expedition, [1] was a British invasion of the Electorate of Hanover during the Napoleonic Wars.Coordinated as part of an attack on France by the nations of the Third Coalition against Napoleon by William Pitt the Younger and Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, planning began for an invasion of French territories in July 1805.
The War of the Fifth Coalition was a European conflict in 1809 that was part of the Napoleonic Wars and the Coalition Wars. ... In August 1805, ...