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begin, pitting the French Republic
ruler of Mysore, uses iron-cased
used by the French at the
submersible, the Turtle, to
The Americans use a In India, the army of Hyder Ali, The French Revolutionary Wars An observation balloon is The French and Spanish The Spanish start a 1812–15
fleets are defeated by
guerrilla war against
adopts shrapnel shells
The British Army
1776 attack British ships, at Boston 1780 rockets against the British 1792 against European monarchies 1794 Battle of Fleurus, Belgium 1803 1805 the British at Trafalgar 1808 French occupation forces The US fights
a war with
Britain

1798
1812
1807
1815
1793
1776
1791
Jean-Baptiste Gribeauval reforms The Chappe semaphore is invented France creates a revolutionary Nelson destroys a French Napoleon defeats Russia The British use Congreve Invading Russia, Napoleon Napoleon is defeated by 1815
1805
French artillery, introducing
telegraph system
British and Prussian armies
loses most of his army in a
citizen army through the
fleet at Aboukir Bay, in
rockets in an attack
“levée en masse”
at the Battle of Waterloo
the Battle of the Nile
winter retreat from Moscow
on Copenhagen, Denmark
standardized calibers
and Austria at Austerlitz
THE BATTLE OF THE NILE—1798 THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ—1805 THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO—1815