Corps d'armee
Semi-independent all-arms bodies -- Napoleon's organisational signature.
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Scale70
Intensity68
Duration55
Tech shift48
Political impact78
Cultural memory75
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Are the scores a ranking of nations or armies?
No. Scores are browsing aids inside an era-bounded atlas — not live league tables of countries.
How many died?
About 3.5-6 million is a working scholarly band, including combatants and civilians, with wide uncertainty for 1812 and for disease.
Was Napoleon a revolutionary or a monarch?
Both: he locked in some revolutionary legal gains, restored hierarchy, and crowned himself. The wars spread both the Code and reaction.
Why did Britain stay at war so long?
Trade, naval security, and a refusal to accept a French hegemony on the Scheldt and in the Channel. Subsidies to allies were Britain's land strategy as much as Wellington's army.
What was the Continental System?
A ban on British goods in French-controlled Europe. It hurt neutrals and allies, encouraged Russia's break, and never starved Britain into peace.
How did 1812 matter?
The Russian campaign destroyed the Grande Armee as a political instrument. Without it, Leipzig and 1814 are hard to imagine at that speed.
French corps organisation and conscription were the institutional revolution. Coalition armies learned to concentrate in 1813 after years of being beaten in detail.
The Royal Navy's blockade was a force structure: ships of the line, dockyards, and press gangs -- a British state more than a battle.
Systems
British fiscal-naval state
Taxes, debt, and dockyards as a way of making war without a Grande Armee.
Coalition staffs
Improving from 1805 to 1813-15 -- Trachenberg plan as political-military coordination.
Guerrillas in Spain
Popular war that regulars could not map away.
Continental System
Economic warfare as occupation policy.
Congress diplomacy
Vienna as a standing method, not a single party.
Meters
European political shock
84
Naval decision (Britain)
88
Conscription leap
80
Colonial/Atlantic reach
60
Battle-painting memory
82
Industrial tech shift
35
Hotspots
Central Europe
Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram, Leipzig -- the imperial chessboard.
English Channel / Trafalgar
Invasion threat and its naval end.
Spain and Portugal
The ulcer: sieges, lines, guerrillas.
Russian corridor 1812
Kovno to Moscow and back -- distance as a weapon.
Belgian ridge 1815
Waterloo and Wavre as a two-battlefield day.
Materials
Horses
1812 consumed them; later campaigns felt the shortage.
British gold
Subsidies to Russia, Prussia and Austria.
Grain and forage
Living off the country worked in Germany and failed in Russia's emptiness.
Oak and copper
Ships of the line as industrial products of a pre-steam age.
Cavalry and artillery matter in the paintings; typhus and supply mattered more in Russia.
This is not a guide to employing horse artillery. It is a historical force picture.