Napoleonic Wars

This is Cairo, Egypt — at the heart of the Nile Delta region on Africa's northeastern edge, exactly where the world's longest river fans out into the Mediterranean before the desert stretches west…

This is Aboukir Bay, on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt — exactly where the Nile Delta fans out into the sea at Africa's northeastern corner, close to where the continent nearly touches the Middle…

This event unfolded in Paris, France — the city straddling the River Seine in the broad Paris Basin, roughly midway between the English Channel coast and the Alps to the southeast. On November 9…

This event took place in Paris, France — the city on the River Seine sitting in the wide Paris Basin, roughly midway between the English Channel coast to the northwest and the Alps to the southeast…

This event took place in New Orleans, the port city at the mouth of the Mississippi River where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico — exactly the southern gateway to the enormous interior of North…

This event took place in Gonaïves, Haiti — on the western third of Hispaniola, the second-largest island in the Caribbean, nestled between the Atlantic Ocean to the north and the Caribbean Sea to the…

This event took place at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France — built on the Île de la Cité, a small island in the River Seine, roughly midway between the Atlantic coast and the Rhine delta, deep in…

Paris, France — sitting on the Seine River in the heart of Western Europe, north of the Alps and just across the English Channel from Britain — is where the Napoleonic Code, or Code Civil, was…

This battle took place at Austerlitz, in what is now the Czech Republic — a town sitting in the heart of central Europe, east of the Rhine valley and north of the Alps, in the broad lowland basin…

The battle took place off Cape Trafalgar, on the Atlantic coast of Spain near the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula — exactly where the peninsula's edge meets the open ocean, just northwest of…

On 6 August 1806, Emperor Francis II proclaimed the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire from the Hofburg in Vienna — the Habsburg capital on the Danube at the eastern edge of the Alps, where central…

The battle took place near Jena, a town in what is now central Germany, set among the hills east of the Rhine and just north of the Thuringian Forest, where the Saale River carves through the uplands…

Berlin, the capital of modern Germany, sits on the broad North European Plain — the flat lowland stretching from the North Sea and Baltic coast deep into the continent, exactly the geographic heart…

This historic meeting took place at Tilsit, now called Sovetsk, in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad — a sliver of territory on the southeastern Baltic coast, wedged between Lithuania to the north…

This event unfolded in Kassel, the capital of the newly created Kingdom of Westphalia, in what is now central Germany — sitting in the lowlands between the Rhine to the west and the Elbe to the east…

This conflict was centred on Madrid, the capital of Spain — a country occupying the bulk of the Iberian Peninsula, which juts southward from the Pyrenees into the Atlantic and Mediterranean…

This battle took place near the village of Borodino, roughly 125 kilometres west of Moscow, in western Russia — deep in the broad plains that form the European core of the world's largest country by…

Moscow, Russia — the historic inland city near the headwaters of the Volga, deep in the vast Eurasian plain that stretches unbroken from Central Europe to the Ural Mountains. In June 1812, Napoleon…

Leipzig, in modern-day Germany, sits in the lowland plain of central Europe — exactly the kind of flat, river-threaded terrain where large armies could maneuver and converge from multiple directions…

Fontainebleau, a town southeast of Paris in France, sits in the heart of western Europe — south of the Seine river, north of the Alps, and roughly equidistant between the Atlantic and the…

This event unfolded in Paris, the capital of France — a city set in the broad basin of the Seine River, roughly midway between the English Channel to the north and the Alps to the southeast. In early…

This was Vienna, Austria — a city cradled in the Alpine foothills of Central Europe, where the Danube River begins its great eastward sweep toward the Black Sea. In 1815, the major European powers…

The Battle of Waterloo took place in 1815 near the town of Waterloo, in what is now Belgium — on the low, gently rolling plains of northwestern Europe, just south of where the Rhine and Meuse rivers…