Conquests

Rupture of the peace of Amiens in May 1803 until the fall of the Empire in 1814 and the interlude of the Hundred Days in 1815, the war was continual. Some accuse the insatiable ambition of the emperor: new Alexandre, it believed himself intended to dominate the world; for others, its ambition was restricted to organize new Europe dominated by France.

Others still point out the heritage of the Revolution: Napoleon was to defend the natural borders that its adversaries and especially Great Britain did not want to recognize in France. Noticing that Great Britain was present in all the successive coalitions directed against France, others reflect ahead the role of the British imperialism, which could not accept the Napoleonean attempts to compete with it in the economic domain: even when it wished peace, Napoleon ran up against the British opposition.