Chapter 23 - Sorry but you're actually not omnipotent
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Feb 1793
Start date of the war with Britain and the use of the navy to disrupt French shipping.
1793
Year of the Prize Act allowing British sailors to keep seized goods.
1805
Year Napoleon abandoned plans to invade Britain and moved to economic warfare.
November 1806
"Date the Berlin Decree was issued
November 1807
Date of the British Orders in Council imposing reciprocal blockade terms.
December 1807
Date of the Milan Decree authorizing the capture of neutral ships sailing from Britain.
1808
Year of the damaging Napoleonic entry into Spain.
1810
Year Tsar Alexander I chose to opt out of the Continental System.
1812
Year of the disastrous attempt to invade and defeat Russia.
1795
Year since which Spain had been mostly allied with France (after defeat).
1805-7
Period when Spain was briefly allied with Britain following the defeat at Trafalgar.
1807
Year Spain and France allied again to take control of Portugal.
1807
Year the army took Lisbon and the Portuguese royal family fled.
March 1808
Date of the attempted coup in Spain by Ferdinand against Charles IV.
"100000"
Number of soldiers Napoleon entered Spain with under a pretext.
March 1808
Month Napoleon forced the abdication of Charles IV
May 1808
Date Napoleon forced the abdication of Ferdinand.
May 1808
Date of the Madrid riots.
2 May 1808
Exact date citizens of Madrid rebelled against French occupation.
150
Number of French soldiers killed in the Madrid riots.
3 May 1808
Date the French shot hundreds of Madrid citizens in retaliation.
July 1808
Date the Spanish army of Andalusia defeated French forces at the Battle of Bailen.
"22000"
Number of French soldiers who surrendered at the Battle of Bailen.
August 1808
Date Napoleon imposed his brother Joseph as King of Spain.
November 1808
Date Napoleon placed himself in command of Spain.
4th December 1808
"Date Napoleon entered Madrid with 80000 troops."
"80000"
Number of troops Napoleon led into Madrid in December 1808.
1809
Beginning of the year the British army was forced to withdraw to Corunna.
January 1809
Date Napoleon was forced to leave Spain to deal with the Austrians.
April 1809
"Date Wellesley returned to Lisbon with 30000 men."
"30000"
Number of men Wellesley brought back to Lisbon in 1809.
1809-10
Years the Lines of Torres Vedras forts were built to defend Lisbon.
1/4 million
Number of French troops raised within three months of returning from the russian campaign
1813
Year Wellesley advanced through Spain to France winning at Vitoria, Madrid, and Toulouse
1814
Year Wellesley defeated the French at Toulouse after invading France.
February 1809
Date Austria decided to rejoin the war.
21/22 April 1809
Dates of the Battle of Eckmuhl.
"12000"
Number of Austrian casualties at the Battle of Eckmuhl.
"6000"
Number of French casualties at the Battle of Eckmuhl.
"20000"
Number of men Napoleon lost at Essling.
6
Number of weeks Napoleon spent planning the river crossing after Essling.
"188000"
Number of troops Napoleon used to re-cross the river in July.
5-6 July 1809
Dates of the Battle of Wagram.
2
Number of days the Battle of Wagram lasted.
"300000"
Total number of soldiers on the battlefield at Wagram.
"34000"
Number of men Napoleon lost at Wagram.
"43000"
Number of men the Austrians lost at Wagram.
14 October 1809
Date of the Treaty of Schonbrunn.
"83000"
Square kilometers of territory lost by Austria in 1809.
1/6
Proportion of the population lost by Austria in the 1809 treaty.
"150000"
Number to which the Austrian army was reduced.
July 1809
Date of the British Walcheren Expedition to Holland.
December 1809
Month the British force withdrew from Holland.
1810
Year Napoleon brought Holland under direct French control.
1810
Year Napoleon married Marie-Louise of Austria.
1793
Year Russia had seized land from Poland (first partition mentioned).
1795
Year Russia had seized land from Poland (second partition mentioned).
31 December 1810
Date Tsar Alexander I broke the trade embargo.
March 1812
Date the Tsar allied with Sweden.
June 1812
Date Napoleon began the invasion of Russia.
1795
Year Lithuania became part of the Russian Empire.
4
Number of days of rations the Grand Armee soldiers started with.
September 1812.
Russian and French army finally meet at Borodino, with the French faring better
"40000"
Number of men lost by the Russians at Borodino.
"28000"
Number of men lost by the French at Borodino.
November 1798
Date the Imperial Guard was formed.
1.78m
Minimum height requirement for the Imperial Guard.
25
Minimum age for the Imperial Guard.
23
Number of campaigns required for Imperial Guard fighting experience.
October 1812
Date of the Malet plot/rumor in Paris.
"10000"
Total soldiers remaining from the Grand Armee after the Russian retreat.
"1000"
Number of soldiers fit for service remaining from the Grand Armee.
1812
Year by which Prussia had significantly revived its military.
1806
Year of the Battle of Jena (used as baseline for Prussian revival).
"42000"
Napoleon's demanded limit for the Prussian army size.
120000
Number of reserves Prussia built in three years via the short service system.
3
"Number of years taken to build the 120000 Prussian reserve."
30 December 1812
Date Prussia signed a separate armistice with Russia.
March 1813
Date Frederick-William declared war on France.
August 1812
Date Britain concluded a formal alliance with Russia.
June 1813
Date Britain joined Prussia and Russia.
"250000"
Number of men in Napoleon's new army created within three months of Russia.
3
"Number of months taken to raise the new army of 250000."
April 1813
Date Napoleon declared war on Prussia.
3
Number of battles Napoleon won following the 1813 declaration of war.
October 1813
Date of the Battle of Leipzig (Battle of the Nations).
3 for every 2
Ratio of Allied soldiers to French soldiers at Leipzig.
3
Number of days of fighting at the Battle of Leipzig.
"900000"
Number of conscripts Napoleon ordered via decree (most never raised).
"60000"
Number of men in Napoleon's remaining typhus-ridden army after his defeat at Leipzig
June 1813
Date of the Battle of Vitoria (Wellesley's capture of Madrid).
March 1814
Date of the Treaty of Chaumont.
30 March 1814
Date the Allies entered Paris.
April 1814
Date of the Treaty of Fontainebleau.
"£200000"
Income granted to Napoleon under the Treaty of Fontainebleau.
"5000"
Number of Imperial Guards Napoleon bid farewell to at Elba.
3
Number of times Napoleon kissed the eagle standard before leaving for elba