Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age

Napoleonic Europe: A Epoch of War (1x8)

Air date: Mar 22, 1998

The Napoleonic state—Europe's largest empire since Roman days—had a brief but violent career from 1800 to 1815. It posed severe ideological and geopolitical challenges to the monarchies, confronting them in a series of wars that set the continent aflame until Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.