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Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815 CE)

Continental mass-conscription war across Europe; precursor to nineteenth-century total-war patterns and to nation-state fiscal-military mobilisation.

Event Details

  • Date: 1803 CE-1815 CE
  • Type: war-series
  • Civilizations: western-atlantic

Description

Continental mass-conscription war across Europe; precursor to nineteenth-century total-war patterns and to nation-state fiscal-military mobilisation.

Quantitative facts and their sourcing

  • Coalition victory (Wikipedia infobox).
  • Wikipedia-compiled (stub; underlying citations Urlanis 1971 pp.180-182, Mikaberidze, Clodfelter 2017 p.184): coalition military dead 1.8 million+ (e.g. Austria/Prussia/German states 500,000-600,000; Russia 450,000-500,000; UK 311,000; Spain 300,000; Portugal 50,000); French side: ~306,000 killed in combat, ~65,000 allies killed in combat, ~600,000 dead from disease.
  • Civilian deaths not included. Page-level checks of Urlanis/Clodfelter NOT done by me.
  • Candidate formal sources listed in the Wikipedia infobox/lead for this topic (METADATA-VERIFIED ONLY via Crossref/Open Library; NOT read; relevance to the figures above unverified): n/a 2022, The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars; Fisher Todd 2001, The Napoleonic Wars (2): The Empires Fight Back 1808-1812 (Essential H.

Confidence

medium (military-dead aggregates); civilian not covered. Numbers marked "Wikipedia-compiled (stub)" come from a secondary aggregator and must be upgraded to page-level scholarly citations before any Official use.

Citations

  • esdaile2007-napoleons-wars [formal] Charles Esdaile (2007). Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803-1815. Allen Lane / Penguin. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL99916W. Verified 2026-10-11 (Open Library record found; edition exists, page-level not checked).
  • clodfelter2017-warfare-armed-conflicts [formal] Micheal Clodfelter (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015 (4th ed.). McFarland. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2725142W. Verified 2026-10-11 (Open Library record found; edition exists, page-level not checked).
  • wp-napoleonic-wars [STUB (secondary aggregator)] Wikipedia contributors (2026). Napoleonic Wars (Wikipedia; secondary aggregator, stub-grade). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars. Verified 2026-10-11 (resolves).
  • m-anon2022-the-cambridge-history-of-the-napoleoni [formal] n/a (2022). The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars. Cambridge University Press. DOI 10.1017/9781108278096 (Crossref-verified). Verified 2026-10-11 (resolves).
  • m-fisher2001-the-napoleonic-wars-2-the-empires-figh [formal] Fisher Todd (2001). The Napoleonic Wars (2): The Empires Fight Back 1808-1812 (Essential Histories). Oshray Publishing. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8922266M. Verified 2026-10-11 (Open Library record found; edition exists, page-level not checked).

Review status

SOFT draft. Not Official. Needs editor review of CAD tags (estimated) and page-level citation upgrade.

About this entry

A draft entry preserved from civilization.study. Evidence grade: medium. 4 of 5 listed sources are fully documented; the rest are names only. Method and sources

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war series · 1803 CE-1815 CE

Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815 CE)

Continental mass-conscription war across Europe; precursor to nineteenth-century total-war patterns and to nation-state fiscal-military mobilisation.

Evidence: Formal source, metadata only Draft estimate

What the record says

  • Unverified (Wikipedia-compiled) Coalition victory (Wikipedia infobox).
  • Unverified (Wikipedia-compiled) Wikipedia-compiled (stub; underlying citations Urlanis 1971 pp.180-182, Mikaberidze, Clodfelter 2017 p.184): coalition military dead 1.8 million+ (e.g. Austria/Prussia/German states 500,000-600,000; Russia 450,000-500,000; UK 311,000; Spain 300,000; Portugal 50,000); French side: ~306,000 killed in combat, ~65,000 allies killed in combat, ~600,000 dead from disease.
  • Note Civilian deaths not included. Page-level checks of Urlanis/Clodfelter NOT done by me.
  • Candidate sources Candidate formal sources listed in the Wikipedia infobox/lead for this topic (METADATA-VERIFIED ONLY via Crossref/Open Library; NOT read; relevance to the figures above unverified): n/a 2022, The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars; Fisher Todd 2001, The Napoleonic Wars (2): The Empires Fight Back 1808-1812 (Essential H.

Confidence. medium (military-dead aggregates); civilian not covered.

Where it sits

Sources and evidence

No page-level citation is claimed for any source. Figures marked unverified come from a Wikipedia aggregator and are not for Official use.

Link to this conflict

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