The War of Napoleonic Succession, also referred to as the War of 1845, the War of French Succession or the Bonaparte War, was a conflict that lasted throughout the brief reign of Napoleon II Bonaparte (coronated February 8th, 1844, deposed September 30th, 1845). At its very core, the war was fought by Louis Jean-Charles Bonaparte, the younger brother of Napoleon II, to remove his brother from the throne of the French Empire, and he employed the assistance of his brother Marcel, the Grand Army and, allegedly, a young Abraham Lincoln to do so.