Liberalism was encouraged Influence on an official level , creating Creating high expectations during the period of rapprochement Recovering between Napoleon and Alexander .

From then until 1812 , when they feared Change_sentiment him as a liberal similar to Napoleon invading Attack of Russia , Speransky developed Coming_to_be plans Arranging for the reorganization Cause_to_amalgamate of Russia 's government .

In the summer of 1806 , during the War Hostile_encounter of the Third Coalition ( of Britain , Russia , Prussia , Sweden ) , Napoleon 's ambassador General Count Sebastiani managed to convince Convincing the Porte to cancel Change_event_time all special privileges granted Preventing_or_letting to Russia in 1805 and to open Process_start the Ottoman straits ( Dardanelles ) exclusively to French warships .

In return , Napoleon promised Commitment to help Assistance the Sultan suppress Hindering a rebellion Violence in Serbia and to recover Recovering lost Earnings_and_losses Ottoman territories .

Napoleon failed to secure Getting Russia 's compliance Action with the armistice agreement Agree_or_refuse_to_act of 1807 .

Napoleon was thus able to withdraw Escaping part of his army before the Russians seized Conquering Krasnoi .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Krasnoi ( `` Krasny '' ) ( November 15 to 18 , 1812 ) was a series of skirmishes fought Hostile_encounter in the final stage of Napoleon 's retreat Escaping from Moscow .

Lacking sufficient artillery , cavalry and supplies Supply to wage battle , Napoleon 's objective Aiming at Krasnoi was to collect Come_together his scattered Dispersal troops and to resume Process_start his retreat Escaping .

Despite Napoleon 's success Achieve in saving Rescuing part of his army from destruction Destroying at Krasnoi , overall the encounter Hostile_encounter was ruinous Catastrophe for the French .

During the four days of combat Napoleon 's subordinate commanders suffered Bodily_harm heavy defeats in individual actions , and large numbers of French stragglers were captured Conquering by the Russians .

With most of its army in Europe fighting Hostile_encounter Napoleon , Britain adopted Choosing a defensive strategy , with offensive operations initially limited Limiting to the border and the western frontier .

With the abdication Change_of_leadership of Napoleon , Britain 's war ended Process_end with France and Britain ceased impressment , rendering Causation the issue Creating irrelevant of the impressment of American sailors .

It was fought Hostile_encounter between a French army led Bringing by Napoleon and a small Russian corps commanded Control by Lieutenant General Count Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev .

After defeating Conquering Emperor Napoleon at the Battle of La Rothière , the two main Allied armies under Austrian Field Marshal Karl Philipp , Prince of Schwarzenberg and Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher separated Forming_relationships .

Leaving part of his forces to hold off Defending Schwarzenberg , Napoleon massed Motion 30,000 troops to deal with Blücher , who allowed Giving his 57,000-man army to become badly spread Dispersal out .

Allied lapses in communication and Blücher 's overconfidence left Olsufiev 's corps isolated near Champaubert when Napoleon 's army lunged Self_motion from the south to deal it a crippling blow Attack .

The Hundred Days ( ) marked Recording the period between Napoleon 's return Arriving from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 ( a period of 111 days ) .

Napoleon returned Arriving while the Congress of Vienna was sitting Placing .

On 13March , seven days before Napoleon reached Arriving Paris , the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared Expressing_publicly him an outlaw , and on 25March Austria , Prussia , Russia and the United Kingdom , members of the Seventh Coalition , bound themselves to put Self_motion 150,000 men each into the field to end his rule .

This set the stage for the last conflict in the Napoleonic Wars , the defeat Conquering of Napoleon at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Waterloo , the second restoration of the French kingdom , and the permanent exile of Napoleon to the distant island of Saint Helena , where he died Death in May 1821 .

This set the stage for the last conflict in the Napoleonic Wars , the defeat Conquering of Napoleon at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Waterloo , the second restoration of the French kingdom , and the permanent exile of Napoleon to the distant island of Saint Helena , where he died Death in May 1821 .

The Ulm Campaign in October 1805 was catastrophic for Austria , with only the corps of Michael von Kienmayer and Franz Jellacic escaping Escaping envelopment Besieging and capture Conquering by the Grande Armée of Napoleon .

As some of Napoleon 's corps moved Motion south into the Alps and the Austrian army of Archduke Charles , Duke of Teschen withdrew from Italy , Jellacic 's force was cut off Removing from the rest of Austria .

The 1806 Invasion of Naples by Napoleon 's forces was provoked Causation when King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies joined Becoming_a_member the Third Coalition against Imperial France .

The French invasion Military_operation of Russia , known Know in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 ( ) and in France as the Russian campaign ( ) , began Process_start on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon 's crossed Motion_directional the Neman River in an attempt to engage Participation and defeat Conquering the Russian army .

Napoleon hoped to compel Action the Emperor of All Russia , Alexander I , to cease Process_end trading Exchange with British merchants through proxies in an effort to pressure the United Kingdom to sue Request for peace .

Napoleon named Name_conferral the campaign the Second Polish War to gain Getting favor with the Poles and to provide Supply a political pretext for his actions .

Napoleon hoped this battle would win the war for him , but the Russian army slipped Motion away and continued to retreat Escaping , leaving Departing Smolensk to burn Bodily_harm .

The Russian army withdrew Escaping the following day , leaving Departing the French again without the decisive victory Napoleon sought .

A week later , Napoleon entered Arriving Moscow , only to find it abandoned GiveUp and burned Bodily_harm by the Russians .

( See the Fire of Moscow ( 1812 ) ) The capture of Moscow did not compel Action Alexander I to sue Request for peace , and Napoleon stayed Temporary_stay in Moscow for a month , waiting for a peace offer that never came .

On 19 October 1812 Napoleon and his army left Departing Moscow and marched Self_motion southwest toward Kaluga , where Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov was encamped with the Russian army .

After the inconclusive Battle of Maloyaroslavets , Napoleon began Process_start to retreat Escaping back to the Polish border .

When the remnants of Napoleon 's main army crossed Motion_directional the Berezina River in late November , only 27,000 soldiers remained Presence ; the had lost Death some 380,000 men dead and 100,000 captured Conquering during the campaign .

Following the crossing of the Berezina , Napoleon left Departing the army after much urging Convincing from his advisors and with the unanimous approval of his Marshals .

The reputation of Napoleon suffered Bodily_harm severely , and French hegemony in Europe weakened Cause_change_of_strength dramatically .

The leader of the Egyptian expedition , General Napoleon Bonaparte , had returned Arriving to France in 1799 and promised Commitment aid Assistance to the troops left behind , prompting Influence several expeditions to the region carrying Bringing reinforcements .

With the French Mediterranean Fleet at sea , Emperor Napoleon I hoped to unite Collaboration it with the French Atlantic Fleet and together form a force powerful enough to temporarily displace Destroying the British Royal Navy Channel Fleet for long enough to allow Preventing_or_letting an invasion Military_operation force to cross Motion_directional the English Channel and land Self_motion in Britain .

Dogged by charges of corruption , the Directory collapsed Destroying in a coup led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799 .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Castiglione saw the French Army of Italy under General Napoleon Bonaparte attack Attack an army of Habsburg Monarchy led by `` Feldmarschall '' Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser on 5 August 1796 .

In 1808 , King Ferdinand VII of Spain abdicated Change_of_leadership in favor of Napoleon , who granted Giving the throne to his brother , Joseph Bonaparte .

The Tyrolean Rebellion Change_of_leadership of 1809 ( German : `` Tiroler Volksaufstand '' ) was a rebellion of peasants in the County of Tyrol led by Andreas Hofer against the occupation of their homeland by the French and Bavarian troops within the context of the War of the Fifth Coalition against Napoleon I .

The Tyroleans celebrated Social_event the news that Napoleon had suffered his first defeat Conquering at the Battle of Aspern-Essling on 22 May .

Napoleon ordered Arranging the re-conquest of the province the same day .

Hofer was arrested Arrest and brought Bringing to Mantua , where Eugène de Beauharnais , the French viceroy of Italy , first wanted to pardon him , but was overruled by his stepfather Napoleon .

The French made Action numerous efforts to supply Supply their colonies during this period , attempting to use Using fast frigates to bring Bringing food and military Military_operation stores to the Caribbean past the British blockades , themselves a response Response to Napoleon 's Continental System , but often losing Earnings_and_losses the vessels in the process .

The Russian emperor , Alexander I , was alarmed Warning by these developments Cause_to_make_progress as he had already deployed Arranging a significant force to Poland and East Prussia to fight Hostile_encounter the advancing Self_motion French forces under Emperor Napoleon I. Alexander requested Request British assistance Assistance in keeping Turkey out of the war Hostile_encounter .

During the war , France and its client states under Napoleon I defeated Conquering an alliance , the Third Coalition , made up Come_together of the Holy Roman Empire , Russia , Britain and others .

The Third Coalition itself came to Motion full fruition in 1804–05 as Napoleon 's actions in Italy ( crowning Change_of_leadership himself with the Iron Crown of Lombardy ) and Germany ( notably the arrest Arrest and execution of the Duc d'Enghien ) spurred Austria and Russia into joining Becoming_a_member Britain against France .

The treaty confirmed Check the Austrian cession of lands in Italy and Bavaria to France and in Germany to Napoleon 's German allies , imposed Action an indemnity of 40 million francs on the defeated Conquering Habsburgs , and allowed Preventing_or_letting the defeated Russian troops free passage , with their arms and equipment , through hostile territories and back to their home soil .