Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees. On November 30, French ...

proclaiming a War of German Liberation. But the people of Bavaria, who had profited from Napoleon's earlier defeat of Austria, rallied once again around Napoleon as he assembled his troops for battle.

The French army has never fought this kind of war… It’s not at all the glorious war that they fought elsewhere. ELTING: At this point you begin to see a failure of Napoleon's judgment. He had somehow ...

The two sides signed the Armistice of Pleiswitz a month later, giving each side time to recover. With little time to maneuver, both Napoleon and the Allies turned to Austria, hoping to persuade them ...