Imperial Russia
Outline #10
Professor Knight

Russia and the Napoleonic Wars

I.  Napoleon comes to Power
	1799—stages coup d’etat (18th of Brumaire)
	1802—First Council for Life
	1804—Crowns himself Emperor
	1804--Seizes and Executes Duke d’Engheim

II. Campaigns of 1805-07
	Alliance against Napoleon:  Russia, Austria, Great Britain
	Battle of Austerlitz, December 2, 1805.
	1806—Napoleon declares war on Prussia
	Autumn 1806, Prussian forces defeated (Battles of Jena, Auerbach)
	June 1807—Battle of Friedland:  French defeat Russians and Prussians
	Treaty of Tilset—1807
	The Continental System

III.  Napoleon invades Russia (1812)
	The Grand Army
	June 24, 1812 Napoleon crosses Nieman River into Russia
	Scorched earth policy
	Russian Generals:  Barclay de Tolly, Bagration, Kutuzov
	Battle of Borodino: September 1812
	Abandonment of Moscow
	Moscow Burns
	October 7, Napoleon orders retreat
	Partisan Warfare
	Grand Army Destroyed:  Out of 600,000 less than 60,000 return
	

IV.  Liberation of Europe
	Battle of Leipzig, October 1813
	January 1 (13) 1814, Russian forces enter France
	March 1814 Paris taken
	The Congress of Vienna
	Napoleon’s “Hundred Days”
	Battle of Waterloo (1815)