The Napoleonic Age- Ella Devine by Ella Devine https://padlet.com/devineella1/3repzenf6dw4cdd0 en-us 2023-03-16 13:36:26 UTC 2023-03-21 13:48:37 UTC hello@padlet.com Battle of Waterloo devineella1 https://padlet.com/devineella1/3repzenf6dw4cdd0/wish/2525335375 June 18, 1815
Three armies participated in the battle: Napoleon's Armée du Nord, a multinational army under Wellington, and a Prussian army under General Blücher.
Napoleon's 72,000 French troops against the duke of Wellington's army of 68,000 (British, Dutch, Belgian, and German soldiers) aided by 45,000 Prussians under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815 between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher.

The battle permanently ended the Napoleonic Wars and wrote wrapped up the spectacular career of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France. Opposing his French army were the troops of an Anglo-Dutch force (Great Britain and allied nations—The Netherlands, Belgium, and the German state of Hanover) under the command of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army led by Field Marshal Prince Gebhard von Blücher. The battle began around noon and ended that evening with Napoleon’s army in retreat. So significant was the defeat of the “God of War” Napoleon that ever since when a seemingly unstoppable individual, force or movement is defeated, it is said to have “met its Waterloo.” The battlefield was actually south of the village of Waterloo, near Mont St. Jean, with its center running north-south along the Charleroi-Brussels road. Wellington’s dispatches were sent from Waterloo, and so that name was given to the battle by the British. The French call the event the Battle of Mont St. Jean. Blücher favored calling it the battle of “La Belle Alliance,” the name of a farmhouse where Napoleon had his headquarters and where the British and Prussian commanders met following the battle. La Belle Alliance could be taken to refer to the multinational alliance that defeated the French Emperor, but the farm’s name, which predated the battle, is said to have originated with a “belle alliance” between the mistress of the house and one of her farmhands following the death of her second husband. 

Napoleon Bonaparte : “Don't you dare criticize me! Don't you dare! Don't you see if Wellington's free to choose his ground then everything I've won in this campaign you've lost!”


https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/battle-of-waterloo https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Waterloo 


]]> 2023-03-21 13:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/devineella1/3repzenf6dw4cdd0/wish/2525335375 Battle of Trafalgar devineella1 https://padlet.com/devineella1/3repzenf6dw4cdd0/wish/2525371323 October 21, 1805 - Cape Trafalgar
The British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies
British. On 21 October, Admiral Nelson had 27 ships of the line with 2,148 cannons, and a total of 17,000 crewmen and marines under his command. Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory, captained by Thomas Masterman Hardy, was one of three 100-gun first-rates in his fleet.
Admiral Horatio Nelson led the British fleet and Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve led a fleet of French and Spanish ships at the Battle of Trafalgar.
How many died in the Battle of Trafalgar? About 1,500 British seamen were killed or wounded in the Battle of Trafalgar, and Admiral Horatio Nelson was mortally wounded. In the Spanish and French fleet, 14,000 men were lost, of whom half were prisoners of war, and Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve was captured.
It took place during the Napoleonic War (1803–1815), as Napoleon Bonaparte and his armies tried to conquer Europe. Admiral Lord Nelson was already a national hero, but the fact that he was killed at Trafalgar made it his most famous victory and ensured his legacy lives on to this day.


"England expects that every man will do his duty" was a signal sent by Vice-Admiral of the Royal Navy Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson from his flagship HMS Victory as the Battle of Trafalgar was about to commence on 21 October 1805.

Map 
]]> 2023-03-21 13:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/devineella1/3repzenf6dw4cdd0/wish/2525371323 Battle of Leipzig devineella1 https://padlet.com/devineella1/3repzenf6dw4cdd0/wish/2525413564 October 16-19, 1813 - Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
The Coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, decisively defeated the Grande Armée of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Separate but coordinated armies of Russians, Prussians, Swedes, and Austrians brought 370,000 troops and 1,384 guns to the battlefield, whereas Napoleon’s strength stood at 198,000 men with 717 guns.
Tsar Alexander I and Karl von Schwarzenberg and Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince Karl Philipp Schwarzenberg, General Gebhard Leberecht Blücher, General Leonty Leontyevich Bennigsen, and the Swedish crown prince Jean Bernadotte.
The French also lost 38,000 men killed and wounded. Allied losses totaled 55,000 men.
The Battle of Leipzig was fought from October 16-19, 1813 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It was the largest battle of the Napoleonic War. Over half of a million people were a part of the battle. Napoleon Bonaparte and his army were defeated by the armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sweden, led by Tsar Alexander I and Austrian Field Marshal Karl Philipp.


“Some 600,000 soldiers met in October 1813 at the Battle of Leipzig, the so-called ‘Battle of the Nations’ – the bloodiest encounter in Europe until the First World War.” - Andrea Wulf (The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World)

map of the battle of leipzig - Bing images
battle of leipzig - Bing images




]]> 2023-03-21 13:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/devineella1/3repzenf6dw4cdd0/wish/2525413564 Battle of Friedland devineella1 https://padlet.com/devineella1/3repzenf6dw4cdd0/wish/2525419685 June 14th, 1807 fought in Friedland, Prussia
The Battle of Friedland was fought between France and Russia.
France had 80,000 troops and 118 cannons while Russia had 46,000 troops and 120 cannons.
Napoleon I and Jean Lannes
Levin August von Bennigsen.
France had 8,000 to 10,000 casualties
Russia had 20,000 to 40,000 killed, wounded, or captured.
The Battle of Friedland was the last major conflict in the War of the Fourth Coalition. It resulted in the utter defeat of the Russian army, forcing Tsar Alexander I back to the negotiating table. The bloody battle occurred near present-day Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Napoleon_friedland.jpg 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_Battle_of_Friedland_-_Situation_shortly_after_1700,_14_June_1807.jpg  




]]> 2023-03-21 13:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/devineella1/3repzenf6dw4cdd0/wish/2525419685