The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, sometimes called the Coalition Wars, were a series of seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France between 1792 and 1815, first against the newly declared French Republic and from 1799 onwards against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The term encompasses both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, though, strictly speaking, it excludes conflicts like the French invasion of Switzerland that did not pit France against a coalition of powers.