Series of European wars (180315) conducted by
Napoleon I of France against an alliance of Britain, the German states, Spain, Portugal, and Russia, following the
Revolutionary Wars, and aiming for French conquest of Europe. At one time nearly all of Europe was under Napoleon's domination. He was finally defeated at the Battle of
Waterloo in 1815.
Admiral Horatio
Nelson's victory over a combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of
Trafalgar (1805) confirmed British naval supremacy during the wars.
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