The Napoleonic Wars

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The Napoleonic Wars
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France declares war

• Seditious writing banned
• Habeas corpus suspended
• Anti-Jacobin

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Why no British Revolution?

• English society different
• Already a Bill of Rights
• French oppose all religion
• France traditional enemy
• Revolutionaries inconsistent

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Napoleon Bonaparte

• 1769-1821

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Effects in Britain

• Discouraged domestic reform
• Encouraged domestic anti-Jacobinism

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British War Aims

• Economic?
• Political?
• Ideological?
• Liberation

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Conduct of the War

• Pitt as war minister
• Coalition
• Battle of the Nile (1798)
• Amiens (1802)

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Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
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Lord Nelson1758-1805
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Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
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The Continental System

• Blockade against British goods

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System Failed

• Hurt Frances allies
• Cant patrol European coast
• England trades world wide
• Pushed Russia out of alliance

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Sir Arthur Wellesley

• 1769-1852
• Duke of Wellington (1812)

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Duke of Wellington
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Apsley House
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Battle of Waterloo (1815)
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Conduct of the Peace

• Congress of Vienna (1814-15)
• Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, France
• No major grudges
• Balance of power restored