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Exploring the Napoleonic Wars: A Historical Quiz

Test your knowledge of the Napoleonic Wars with this engaging quiz! Explore key events, battles, and figures pertaining to this crucial period in history.

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1 The French-led Grande Armée, consisting of 650,000 men (270,000 Frenchmen and many soldiers of allies or subject areas), crossed the ________ on 23 June 1812.

2 The ________, briefly allied with Austria in 1814, allied with France again and fought against Austria during the Neapolitan War in 1815.

3 Within months of the collapse of the Third Coalition, the ________ (1806–07) against France was formed by Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

4 the Principality of Lucca and Piombino (under ________ (Napoleon's sister) and her husband Felice Baciocchi);

5 The ________ (1815) pitted the United Kingdom, Russia, Prussia, Sweden, Austria, the Netherlands and a number of German states against France.

6 Napoleon Bonaparte, the main architect of victory in the last years of the First Coalition, had gone to campaign in ________.

7 Saxony changed sides again in 1813 during the ________, causing most other member-states to quickly follow suit and declare war on France.

8 How many casualties were there in the Hundred Days?

9 No consensus exists as to when the ________ ended and the Napoleonic Wars began.

10 Who was a commander in the French invasion of Russia?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland received the final surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard his ship HMS Bellerophon after the Napoleonic Wars.
  • Ludwig von Wurmb, a general from Hesse-Kassel during the Napoleonic Wars, was known as the "bitter Wurmb" to distinguish him from his siblings.
  • HMS Sans Pareil (pictured), a former French ship captured at the Glorious First of June in 1794, was later used to hold French prisoners-of-war during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • during the Napoleonic Wars, a Prussian Regiment, formed from prisoners-of-war, served in the French Army.
  • in Bryan Talbot's graphic novel Grandville, France won the Napoleonic Wars, invaded Britain and guillotined the British Royal Family.
  • the Quebec-born Etienne Hastrel de Rivedoux helped to organize French military operations in the French Revolutionary Wars (1793–1801), the Napoleonic Wars (1805–1815), and the July Revolution (1830).
  • the English engraver John Boydell (pictured) founded the fashionable Shakespeare Gallery in London in 1786, but had to sell it in a lottery in 1804 after he was bankrupted by the Napoleonic Wars.
  • the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace accommodates 332 portraits of Russian generals who took part in the Napoleonic Wars.
  • Enriqueta Favez (pictured), a Swiss woman, studied medicine and served as an army surgeon in the Napoleonic Wars disguised as a man, went to Cuba in the 1820s and married a local woman.
  • Sir Davidge Gould, who served during the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, was promoted to the rank of Admiral in 1825.
  • Mikhail Lomonosov's granddaughter was the wife of General Nikolay Raevsky, one of the leading Russian commanders during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • lead shot for the Napoleonic Wars was made at Chester Shot Tower (pictured), probably the oldest surviving shot tower in the world.
  • Captain Thomas Baker played a significant role in bringing about three battles during the Napoleonic Wars: Copenhagen, Trafalgar, and Cape Ortegal.
  • Napoléon Bonaparte's defeat in what the Russians call the Patriotic War was the turning point in the Napoleonic Wars and the beginning of the end for the Emperor.
  • Napoleonic Wars military historian Ramsay Weston Phipps helped to blow up the docks at the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) when he was a young Royal Artillery lieutenant.
  • Spanish soldier Manuel la Peña was widely regarded as incompetent, but rose to become Captain General of Andalusia in the Napoleonic Peninsular War.
  • Dutch governor-general Jan Willem Janssens surrendered both the Cape Colony and the Dutch East Indies in separate incidents during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • 18th century Franco-Portuguese industrialist Jácome Ratton (pictured) left a vivid account of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake in his memoirs and was exiled to the Azores during the Napoleonic Wars.
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