NAPOLEONIC WARS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Napoleonic Wars mean? 

• NAPOLEONIC WARS (noun)
  The noun NAPOLEONIC WARS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: NAPOLEONIC WARS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAPOLEONIC WARS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)

Meronyms (parts of "Napoleonic Wars"):

Austerlitz; battle of Austerlitz (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)

Borodino (Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army)

battle of Hohenlinden; Hohenlinden (a battle during the Napoleonic Wars (1800); the French defeated the Austrians)

Battle of Jena; Jena (the battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians)

Marengo (a battle in 1800 in which the French under Napoleon Bonaparte won a great victory over the Austrians)

battle of Trafalgar; Trafalgar (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))

battle of Wagram; Wagram (a battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809); Napoleon defeated the Austrians)

Battle of Waterloo; Waterloo (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)