Napoleonic Wars. During 1804 and 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte gathered the Grande Armée in the French town of Boulogne (Boulogne-sur-Mer), with the goal of launching the invasion of England from there. Combat on the beach at Boulogne, 1804. Drawing by Eugène Charpentier. Engraving by Beyer. "Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire" (History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon), by A. Thiers. Volume IV. Published in Paris, 1845.

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