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The Ulm Campaign (25 September to 20 October 1805) was a military operation during the War of the Third Coalition (1805-1806). Through a series of maneuvers, the 210,000 men of the French Grande Armée, led by Emperor Napoleon I, encircled...

Emperor Napoleon I in his coronation robes. Painting by François Gérard, 1805. Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau.

Napoleon after his first abdication at Fontainebleau, April 1814. Painting by Paul Delaroche, 1845. Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig.

Napoleon in exile on St. Helena, Watercolor by František Xaver Sandmann, c. 1820. National Museum of the Château de Malmaison.

Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1815) on his throne. Oil on canvas by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1806. Musée de l'Armée, Paris.

Napoleon Bonaparte is greeted by the French Directory as "the hero of Italy". Lithograph by Charles Motte, c. 1820. British Museum, London.

French Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) and his staff during the French campaigns of the War of the Sixth Coalition. Within months, the Napoleonic Empire would be toppled. Oil on canvas by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1864. Musée...

Napoleon Crossing the Alps, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1805. Château de Malmaison.

A painting (dated 1898) of a fictionalised event in which Napoleon (1769-1821) looks upon Charlemagne's imperial crown in Aachen, Germany, to symbolise the continuity between one European conqueror and another. Current location unknown.

Napoleon takes command at the Battle of Friedland, 14 June 1807, by Edouard Bernard Debat-Ponsan, c. 19th century.