FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE
August 1805 | Franch invades Austria. Ulm falls. |
September 1805 | Napoleon deals a heavy defeat to Charles in the Battle of Karlstadt. |
October 1805 | Prussia declares war on France. Napoleon briefly occupies Vienna. Allies capture Amsterdam and conquer Hannover. |
November 1805 | Napoleon captures Prague. Confederation of the Rhine created |
December 1805 | Napoleon captures Dresden. Saxony becomes a french ally. |
January 1806 | Napoleon captures Berlin. Davout drives the allies into the sea at Amsterdam. Hiller liberates Trieste. The Dalmatian state is dissolved. |
February 1806 | Massena repulses Archduke Charles at Munch. |
March 1806 | Napoleon defeats Kutusov at Risenbirge. Massena defeats Ferdinand at Linz. Charles' counterattack routs Massena. |
April 1806 | Napoleon reoccupies Vienna and heavily defeats Charles at the Battle of Berndorf. |
May 1806 | Lannes captures Budapest. Austria surrenders to France. Cossacks capture Dresden. |
June 1806 | Davout recaptures Dresden. British land and capture Brest. |
July 1806 | Spain invades Portugal. Barclay de Tolly and Bagration smash Soult at Prenzlau. |
August 1806 | Napoleon masses 100,000 men on the Oder. The Russians and Prussians withdraw behind the Vistula. |
September 1806 | Napoleon hands command of the Grande Armee to Massena and departs for France. La Romana defeated by Uxbridge outside Lisbon. |
October 1806 | Napoleon returns to Paris. Spanish forces evacuate Portugal. |
November 1806 | Soult crosses the Pyrennes into Spain with 25,000 men. |
December 1806 | Costanos beseiges Gibraltar with 30,000 men. |
January 1807 | Moore lands near Gibraltar and breaks the seige. |
February 1807 | Skrimishing along the Spanish/Portuguese border. Sir John Moore's expeditionary force lands at Oporoto. |
March 1807 | Victor occupies Trieste. State of Dalmatia created. |
April 1807 | Portuguese sack Badajoz. |
May 1807 | Napoleon leaves Paris for Germany. The Grande Armee crosses the Oder. Moore defeats La Romana. |
June 1807 | The Grande Armee under Massena defeats the allies at Luckau. Blake defeats Moore. |
July 1807 | Napoleon captures Konigsberg. Prussia surrenders to France. Moore defeats Soult in Spain. |
August 1807 | Napoleon pursues and defeats Barclay at Pultusk. |
September 1807 | Kingdom of Poland created. Massena crowned as king. The Russians reteat into the Russian hinterland. The Grande Armee halts its pursuit. |
October 1807 | Napoleon departs Poland for France. Moore lands on the French coast and captures Bayonne. |
November 1807 | The English reinforce Moore at Bayonne. The Grande Armee in Poland moves into winter quarters. The Russians build a huge fortified camp on the Dneiper. |
December 1807 | Turkey declares war on Russia. Napoleon arrives in Paris. |
January 1808 | Wellington arrives in Bayonne. |
February 1808 | Napoleon departs for southern France. Wellington evacuates Bayonne. |
March 1808 | England invades Spain. Wellington defeats Blake at Ciudad Rodrigo. |
April 1808 | Blake defeats Moore. The English retreat withdraw into Portugal. Russia invades Poland. |
May 1808 | Austria declares war on France. Russia advances on Warsaw. |
June 1808 | Napoleon takes Prague. The English conquer Denmark. Kutusov takes Warsaw and destroys the Polish state. |
July 1808 | Napoleon enters Vienna. The English seize Hamburg. |
August 1808 | Napoleon heavily defeats Bagration at Hainfield. The English land at Calais. |
September 1808 | Charles defeats Napoleon outside Budapest. The Austrians liberate Vianna. The English liberate Hannover. |
October 1808 | Napoleon defeats Charles and reoccupies Vienna. Napoleon rejects Austria's offer of surrender. A Franco-Spanish army invades Portugal and beseiged Oporoto. |
November 1808 | Austria surrenders to France. Wellington defeats Soult and raises the seige at Oporoto. Russian declares its neutrality. |
December 1808 | The Grande Armee goes into winter quarters. |
January 1809 | Davout recaptures Hannover. The French and Spanish withdraw from Portugal. |
February 1809 | Napoleon returns to Paris. |
March 1809 | France has 100,000 men in Spain. The English have 90,000 men in Portugal. |
April 1809 | Wellington crosses into Spain and smashes the Spanish at Badajoz. |
May 1809 | Russia and Turkey sign a peace treaty. Wellington defeats Blake at Ciudad Rodrigo. |
June 1809 | Russia declares war on Sweden. Murat occupies Warsaw. Soult smashes Wellington at Ciudad Rodrigo. |
July 1809 | Soult defeats Hill and advances into Portugal. Kutusov conquers Warsaw and takes Murat prisoner. |
August 1809 | Soult captures Lisbon. Wellington defeats Lannes at Torres Verdes. Russia conquers Sweden. Russia invades Silesia. Davout takes command of the Grande Armee behind the Oder. |
September 1809 | Napoleon and Wellington trade victories outside Vimiero. Kutusov smashes marmont at Breslau. |
October 1809 | Napoleon leaves the peninsula for France. Wellington recaptures Lisbon. The Russians land on the Baltic coast and capture Hamburg. |
November 1809 | Kutusov defeats Davout and Bernadotte in Poland. The Russians capture Cassel. |
December 1809 | Napoleon returns to Paris from Spain. The Grande Armee and the Russians go into winter quarters. |
January 1810 | Massena drives the Allies into the sea near Lubeck. |
February 1810 | An Anglo-Russian expeditionary force captures Amsterdam. |