![]() ![]() France will have to battle against the whole of Europe. All major European nations have already suffered defeats against Bonaparte’s Grande Armée, but the widely stretched French nation is now literally surrounded by the enemies. The French tricolour was already raised over Berlin, and Vienna has been captured - for the first time in the city’s history. In 1812 the French armies fight all across the continent - from the mountains of Portugal to the endless steppes of Russia. Two decades of Revolutionary and Napoleonic warfare have strengthened her huge armies and expanded her borders and spheres of political influence. ![]() Led by Napoleon Bonaparte himself, the French Empire in 1812 is the most powerful continental state in Europe. ![]()
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