ERA // 1763 – 1815
Age of Revolutions
85 wars · 876 battles
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The Atlantic revolutions and the wars they unleashed — American, French, Haitian and Latin American independence, and the Napoleonic Wars that redrew Europe.
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1763 – 1899
85 wars · span 136 years
Wars
85 catalogued
1763-1864
Caucasian War
The Caucasian War or the Caucasus War was a 19th-century military conflict between the Russian Empire and various peoples of the North Caucasus who resisted subjugation during…
9 battles
1763-1765
Pontiac's War
Pontiac's War was launched in 1763 by a confederation of Native Americans who were dissatisfied with British rule in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War…
2 battles
1763-1864
Russian–Circassian War
The Russo-Circassian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Circassia, or termed by the Circassians as the Great War with the Tsar took place in the North Caucasus between…
1 battle
1765-1767
Burmese–Siamese War of 1765–1767
The Burmese–Siamese War of 1765–1767, also known as the war of the second fall of Ayutthaya was the second military conflict between Burma under the Konbaung dynasty and…
0 battles
1765-1769
Sino-Burmese War
The Sino-Burmese War, also known as the Qing invasions of Burma or the Myanmar campaign of the Qing dynasty, was a war fought between the Qing dynasty of China and the Konbaung…
1 battle
1767-1799
Anglo-Mysore wars
The Anglo-Mysore wars were a series of four wars fought during the last three decades of the 18th century between the Kingdom of Mysore on the one hand, and the British East…
1 battle
1767-1769
First Anglo-Mysore War
The First Anglo-Mysore War (1767–1769) was a conflict in India between the Sultanate of Mysore and the East India Company. The war was instigated in part by the machinations of…
0 battles
1768-1774
Sixth Russo-Turkish War
The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 was a major armed conflict that saw Russian armies victorious against the Ottoman Empire. Russia's victory brought the Yedisan between the…
7 battles
1769-1772
Danish–Algerian War
The Dano-Algerian War was a conflict lasting from 1769 to 1772 between Denmark–Norway and the Regency of Algiers. The latter of which was functionally and mostly independent from…
0 battles
1773-1774
First Rohilla War
The First Rohilla War of 1773–1774 was a punitive campaign by Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh on the behalf of Mughal Emperor, against the Rohillas, Indian descendants of Afghan…
0 battles
1774
Dunmore's War
Lord Dunmore's War, also known as Dunmore's War, was a brief conflict in the fall of 1774 between the British Colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and Mingo in the trans-Appalachia…
1 battle
1775–1783
American Revolution
A colonial rebellion became a war for independence and then a wider Atlantic struggle after French intervention reshaped British strategy.
54 battles · Approx. 25,000 American military deaths; wider losses varied by source and category.
1775-1782
First Anglo-Maratha War
The First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782) was the first conflict fought between the British East India Company and Maratha Empire in India. The war, fought in between Surat and…
0 battles
1775-1776
Ottoman–Persian War
The Ottoman–Persian War of 1776–1779 was fought between the Ottoman Empire and Zand Iran. The Iranians, ruled by Karim Khan Zand and led by his brother Sadeq Khan Zand, invaded…
0 battles
1776-1794
Cherokee–American wars
The Cherokee–American wars, also known as the Chickamauga Wars, were a series of raids, campaigns, ambushes, minor skirmishes, and several full-scale frontier battles in the Old…
1 battle
1776-1777
Spanish–Portuguese War of 1776-1777
The Spanish-Portuguese War, also known as the Second Cevallos expedition, was fought between 1776 and 1777 over the border between Spanish and Portuguese South America.
0 battles
1778-1783
Anglo-French War of 1778–1783
The Anglo-French War, also known as the War of 1778 or the Bourbon War in Britain, was a military conflict fought between France and Great Britain, sometimes with their…
8 battles
1778-1779
War of the Bavarian Succession
The War of the Bavarian Succession was a dispute between the Austrian Habsburg monarchy and an alliance of Saxony and Prussia over succession to the Electorate of Bavaria after…
0 battles
1779-1783
Anglo-Spanish War (1779-1783)
Spain, through its alliance with France and as part of its conflict with Britain, played an important role in the independence of the United States. Spain declared war on Britain…
6 battles
1779-1879
Xhosa Wars
The Xhosa Wars were a series of nine wars between the Xhosa Kingdom and the British Empire as well as Trekboers from the Dutch colonial empire in what is now the Eastern Cape in…
0 battles
1780-1784
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic. The war, contemporary with the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783),…
4 battles
1780-1784
Second Anglo-Mysore War
The Second Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company from 1780 to 1784. At the time, Mysore was a key French ally in India,…
4 battles
1785-1786
Burmese–Siamese War of 1785–86
The Burmese–Siamese War (1785–1786), known as the Nine Armies' Wars in Siamese history because the Burmese came in nine armies, was the first war between the Konbaung dynasty of…
0 battles
1785-1795
Northwest Indian War
The Northwest Indian War was an armed conflict for control of the Northwest Territory between the United States and a loose confederation of Native American peoples who called…
3 battles
1787
Prussian invasion of Holland
The Prussian invasion of Holland was a military campaign under the leadership of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, against the rise of the democratic Patriot movement…
0 battles
1787-1792
Seventh Russo-Turkish War
The Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 involved an unsuccessful attempt by the Ottoman Empire to regain lands lost to the Russian Empire in the course of the previous Russo-Turkish…
12 battles
1788-1791
Austro-Turkish War of 1788–1791
The Austro-Turkish War, also known as the Habsburg–Ottoman War, was fought from 1788 to 1791, between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Empire. During the conflict, Habsburg…
3 battles
1788-1790
Russo-Swedish War of 1788–1790
The Russo-Swedish War of 1788–1790 was fought between Sweden and Russia from June 1788 to August 1790. The war was ended by the Treaty of Värälä on 14 August 1790 and took place…
17 battles
1788-1789
Sino-Nepalese War
The Sino-Nepalese War, also known as the Sino-Gorkha War and in Chinese as the campaign of Gorkha, was a war fought between the Qing dynasty of China and the Kingdom of Nepal in…
0 battles
1788-1789
Theater War
The Theatre War, Cowberry War, Cranberry War or Lingonberry War, was a brief war between Denmark–Norway and Sweden, starting on 24 September 1788, formally lasting until 9 July…
1 battle
1790-1792
Third Anglo-Mysore War
The Third Anglo-Mysore War (1790–1792) was a military conflict in Southern India between the Mysore Sultanate and the East India Company, Maratha Empire, Kingdom of Travancore…
1 battle
1792-1815
Coalition Wars
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts between the French and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French…
4 battles
1792-1802
French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great…
77 battles
1792
Polish–Russian War of 1792
The Polish–Russian War of 1792 was fought between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth on one side, and the Targowica Confederation and the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great…
11 battles
1792-1797
War of the First Coalition
The War of the First Coalition was a set of wars between a coalition of several European powers and France fought between 1792 and 1797. The coalition was only loosely allied and…
58 battles
1793-1796
War in the Vendée
The War in the Vendée was a counter-revolutionary insurrection that took place in the Vendée region of France from 1793 to 1796, during the French Revolution. The Vendée is a…
75 battles
1793-1795
War of the Pyrenees
The War of the Pyrenees, also known as War of Roussillon or War of the Convention, was the Pyrenean front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic. It…
14 battles
1794-1899
Australian frontier wars
The Australian frontier wars were the violent conflicts between Indigenous Australians and mostly British settlers from the colonial period of Australia to at least 1928.
0 battles
1794-1800
Chouannerie
The Chouannerie was a royalist uprising or counter-revolution in twelve of the western départements of France, particularly in the provinces of Brittany and Maine, against the…
3 battles
1796-1808
Anglo-Spanish War (1796-1808)
The Anglo-Spanish War was fought between 1796 and 1802, and again from 1804 to 1808, as part of the First Coalition Wars. The war ended when an unexpected alliance was formed…
5 battles
1796-1797
Italian Campaign of 1796-1797
The Italian campaign of 1796–1797, also known as the First Italian Campaign, was a series of military operations in Italy during the War of the First Coalition. Led by Napoleon…
6 battles
1796
Persian Expedition of 1796
The Persian expedition of Catherine the Great of 1796, like the Persian expedition of Peter the Great (1722–1723), was one of the Russo-Persian Wars of the 18th century which did…
0 battles
1798-1799
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict in South India between the Mysore State against the East India Company, Maratha Empire and the Hyderabad State in 1798–99.
3 battles
1798
Peasants' War
The Peasants' War was a peasant revolt in 1798 against the French Republican occupiers of the Southern Netherlands, a region which now includes Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of…
1 battle
1798-1800
Quasi-War
The Quasi-War was an undeclared war from 1798 to 1800 between the United States and the French First Republic. It was fought almost entirely at sea, primarily in the Caribbean…
4 battles
1798-1802
War of the Second Coalition
The War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802) was the second war between revolutionary France and a coalition of European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria and Russia, and…
39 battles
1799-1800
War of the South
The War of the South, not to be confused with the general term knives-war or the War of Knives, was a civil war from June 1799 to July 1800 between the Haitian revolutionary…
1 battle
1800-1821
Mexican War of Independence
The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict and political process resulting in Mexico's independence from the Spanish Empire. It was not a single, coherent event, but…
25 battles
1801-1815
Barbary Wars
The Barbary Wars were a series of two wars fought by the United States, Sweden, and the Kingdom of Sicily against the Barbary states and Morocco of North Africa in the early 19th…
0 battles
1801-1814
English Wars
The English Wars were a series of conflicts pitting the United Kingdom and Sweden against Denmark-Norway as part of the Napoleonic Wars. It is named after England, the common…
2 battles
1801-1805
First Barbary War
The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Tripolitan War and the Barbary Coast War, was a conflict during the 1801–1815 Barbary Wars, in which the United States fought…
4 battles
1801
War of the Oranges
The War of the Oranges was a brief conflict in 1801 in which Spanish forces, instigated by the government of France, and ultimately supported by the French military, invaded…
0 battles
1803-1815
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a global series of conflicts fought by a fluctuating array of European coalitions against the French First Republic (1803–1804) under the…
23 battles · Coalition forces: 500,000–600,000; France: 306,000
1803-1837
Padri War
The Padri Wars was fought from 1803 until 1837 in West Sumatra, Indonesia between the Padri and the Adat. The Padri were Muslim clerics from Sumatra who wanted to impose Sharia…
0 battles
1803-1805
Second Anglo-Maratha War
Second Anglo-Maratha War was a large conflict within the Maratha Empire involving the East India Company. It resulted in a major loss of territory for the Marathas, including…
10 battles
1804-1813
Russo-Persian War of 1804–13
The Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813 was one of the many wars between the Persian Empire and Imperial Russia, and, like many of their other conflicts, began as a territorial…
5 battles
1805-1810
Franco-Swedish War
The Franco-Swedish War or Pomeranian War was the first involvement by Sweden in the Napoleonic Wars. The country joined the Third Coalition in an effort to defeat France under…
0 battles
1805-1806
War of the Third Coalition
The War of the Third Coalition was a European conflict lasting from 1805 to 1806 and was the first conflict of the Napoleonic Wars. During the war, France and its client states…
19 battles
1806-1812
Eighth Russo-Turkish War
The Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) was fought between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. In 1812, both sides made peace just as Napoleon's invasion of Russia was about to…
7 battles
1806-1807
War of the Fourth Coalition
The War of the Fourth Coalition was a war spanning 1806–1807 that saw a multinational coalition fight against Napoleon's French Empire, subsequently being defeated. The main…
18 battles
1807-1812
Anglo-Russian War
The Anglo-Russian War was fought between the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. It began after Russia signed the Treaty of Tilsit with the First…
0 battles
1807-1809
Anglo-Turkish War
The Anglo-Turkish War of 1807–1809 was a part of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Ottoman Empire.
0 battles
1807-1814
Gunboat War
The Gunboat War was a naval conflict between Denmark–Norway and Great Britain supported by Sweden during the Napoleonic Wars. The war's name is derived from the Danish tactic of…
4 battles
1807-1842
Musket Wars
The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand among Māori between 1806 and 1845, after Māori first obtained muskets and then…
0 battles
1808-1809
Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809
The Dano-Swedish War of 1808–1809 was a war between Denmark–Norway and Sweden due to Denmark–Norway's alliance with France and Sweden's alliance with the United Kingdom during…
3 battles
1808-1809
Finnish War
The Finnish War was fought between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Russian Empire from 21 February 1808 to 17 September 1809 as part of the Napoleonic Wars. As a result of the war,…
32 battles
1808-1814
Peninsular War
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by the Iberian nations Spain and Portugal, along with the United Kingdom, against the invading and occupying…
117 battles
1808-1833
Spanish American wars of independence
The Spanish American wars of independence were a series of conflicts that took place across the Spanish Empire during the early 19th century. The struggles in both hemispheres…
19 battles
1809-1825
Bolivian War of Independence
The Bolivian War of Independence began with the establishment of government juntas in Sucre and La Paz, after the Chuquisaca Revolution and La Paz revolution. These Juntas were…
2 battles
1809
War of the Fifth Coalition
The War of the Fifth Coalition was a European conflict in 1809 that was part of the Napoleonic Wars and the Coalition Wars. The main conflict took place in Central Europe between…
25 battles
1810-1812
Anglo-Swedish War
During the Napoleonic Wars until 1810, Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were allies in the war against Napoleon. As a result of Sweden's defeat in the…
0 battles
1810-1816
Argentine War of Independence
The Argentine War of Independence was a set of military events from 1810 to 1825 which resulted in the consolidation of Argentina as an independent country from Spanish rule. The…
3 battles
1810-1825
Colombian War of Independence
The Colombian War of Independence began on July 20, 1810 when the Junta de Santa Fe was formed in Santa Fe de Bogotá, the capital of the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New…
6 battles
1810-1813
Tecumseh's War
Tecumseh's War or Tecumseh's Rebellion was a conflict between the United States and Tecumseh's confederacy, led by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in the Indiana Territory. Although…
1 battle
1810-1823
Venezuelan War of Independence
The Venezuelan War of Independence was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early nineteenth century, when independence movements in South America fought a…
14 battles
1811-1818
Egyptian–Wahhabi War
The Ottoman–Wahhabi war, or Wahhabi War, was fought from early 1811 until 1818 between the Ottoman Empire, its vassal the Eyalet of Egypt, and the Wahhabis' Emirate of Diriyah,…
4 battles
1812
French invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812, was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of…
24 battles
1812–1815
War of 1812
A conflict over maritime coercion, frontier power, and national legitimacy spread across borderlands, ports, and the Gulf Coast.
13 battles · Approx. 15,000 U.S. deaths from combat and disease, with broader losses contested.
1813-1814
Creek War
The Creek War was a regional conflict between opposing Native American factions, European powers, and the United States during the early 19th century. The Creek War began as a…
8 battles
1813-1814
War of the Sixth Coalition
The War of the Sixth Coalition, sometimes known in Germany as the Wars of Liberation saw a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Sweden,…
20 battles
1814-1816
Anglo-Nepalese War
The Anglo-Nepalese War, also known as the Gorkha War, was fought between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Nepal. The conflict was caused by territorial disputes…
2 battles
1814-1880
Argentine Civil Wars
The Argentine Civil Wars were a series of civil conflicts of varying intensity that took place from 1814 to 1853 in the territories of Argentina. Beginning concurrently with the…
12 battles
1814
Swedish-Norwegian War 1814
The Swedish–Norwegian War was a war fought between Sweden and Norway in the summer of 1814. According to the Treaty of Kiel, Norway would enter a union with Sweden under Charles…
4 battles
1815
Neapolitan War
The Neapolitan War, also known as the Austro-Neapolitan War, was a conflict between the Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples and the Austrian Empire. It started on 15 March 1815, when…
11 battles
1815
Second Barbary War
The Second Barbary War, also known as the U.S.–Algerian War and the Algerine War, was a brief military conflict between the United States and the North African state of Algiers…
2 battles
Famous commanders of the Age of Revolutions era
12 shown
Napoleon Bonaparte
Strategicbrigadier general1769–1821
France
54 battles ledΣ2278 int
Joachim Murat
StrategicMarshal of the Empire1767–1815
French Empire
28 battles ledΣ1267 int
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
StrategicMarshal of the Empire1763–1844
French Empire
16 battles ledΣ763 int
Eugène de Beauharnais
Strategicgeneral1781–1824
France
15 battles ledΣ757 int
André Masséna
general1758–1817
France
40 battles ledΣ1572 int
Michel Ney
Marshal of the Empire1769–1815
French Empire
31 battles ledΣ1532 int
Jean-de-Dieu Soult
Marshal of the Empire1769–1851
French Empire
34 battles ledΣ1444 int
Jean Lannes
Marshal of the Empire1769–1809
France
27 battles ledΣ1252 int
Archduke Charles
general1771–1847
Austrian Empire
27 battles ledΣ1167 int
Pierre Augereau
Marshal of the Empire1757–1816
France
27 battles ledΣ1142 int
Arthur Wellesley
field marshal1769–1852
30 battles ledΣ1139 int
Louis-Nicolas Davout
Marshal of the Empire1770–1823
French Empire
21 battles ledΣ1060 int
Ranked by Σ battle intensity across battles led in scope. Strategic leaders (chiefs of state / supreme commanders) pinned to the top.