napoleonic wars
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1. a series of wars fought between France (led by Napoleon Bonaparte) and alliances involving England and Prussia and Russia and Austria at different times; 1799-1815 (noun.act)
instance hypernym | : | war, warfare, |
definition | : | the waging of armed conflict against an enemy (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | austerlitz, battle of austerlitz, |
definition | : | a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian armies of Czar Alexander I and the Austrian armies of Emperor Francis II (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | borodino, |
definition | : | Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | battle of jena, jena, |
definition | : | the battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | marengo, |
definition | : | a battle in 1800 in which the French under Napoleon Bonaparte won a great victory over the Austrians (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | battle of trafalgar, trafalgar, |
definition | : | a naval battle in 1805 off the southwest coast of Spain; the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the English under Nelson (who was mortally wounded) (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | battle of wagram, wagram, |
definition | : | a battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809); Napoleon defeated the Austrians (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | battle of waterloo, waterloo, |
definition | : | the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon (noun.act) |
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