Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ya shirya juyin mulki a watan Nuwamba 1799 kuma ya zama "First Consul na Jamhuriyar". Rashin bambancin ra'ayi tare da Birtaniya ya nuna cewa Faransanci na fuskantar War of the Third Coalition ta 1805. Napoleon ya rushe wannan haɗin gwiwa tare da nasara mai nasara a yakin Ulm, da kuma nasara ta tarihi a yakin Austerlitz, wanda ya haifar da rushewar Daular Roman Empire. A shekara ta 1806, Ƙungiyar Hudu ta Hudu
ya dauki makamai a kansa saboda Prussia ya damu da karuwar tasirin Faransa a nahiyar. Napoleon ya hanzarta fitar da Prussia a yakin Jena da Auerstedt, sannan ya yi tafiya zuwa Grande Armée mai zurfi a Gabashin Turai, ya hallaka Rasha a watan Yunin 1807 a Friedland, kuma ya tilasta wa ƙasashen da aka ci nasara na Hudu na Hudu su yarda da Yarjejeniyar Tilsit. Shekaru biyu bayan haka, Austrians sun sake kalubalanci Faransanci a lokacin Yaƙin Ƙungiya ta Biyar, amma Napoleon ya karfafa ikonsa a Turai bayan ya yi nasara a yakin Wagram.