The formal Napoleonic Wars run from 1803 to 1815, but the French Revolutionary Wars had lasted from 1792 to 1802. The short peace between them makes the labels convenient without erasing the continuity of European conflict. The idea of a Second Hundred Years War offers an even longer frame, although that period also contained pauses. By 1806, coalitions, allies, and client states were responding to pressures built over decades. The Russo-Turkish War began inside this connected European conflict.
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Why 1806 belongs to a much longer European war
The discussion places 1806 inside the nearly continuous Revolutionary and Napoleonic conflicts and questions how neatly historians divide them.