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The Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars. France declares war. Seditious writing banned Habeas corpus suspended Anti-Jacobin. Why no British Revolution?. English society different Already a Bill of Rights French oppose all religion France traditional enemy Revolutionaries inconsistent. Napoleon Bonaparte.

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The Napoleonic Wars

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  1. The Napoleonic Wars

  2. France declares war • Seditious writing banned • Habeas corpus suspended • Anti-Jacobin

  3. Why no British Revolution? • English society different • Already a Bill of Rights • French oppose all religion • France traditional enemy • Revolutionaries inconsistent

  4. Napoleon Bonaparte • 1769-1821

  5. Effects in Britain • Discouraged domestic reform • Encouraged domestic anti-Jacobinism

  6. British War Aims • Economic? • Political? • Ideological? • Liberation

  7. Conduct of the War • Pitt as war minister • Coalition • Battle of the Nile (1798) • Amiens (1802)

  8. Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

  9. Lord Nelson1758-1805

  10. Battle of Austerlitz (1805)

  11. The Continental System • Blockade against British goods

  12. System Failed • Hurt France’s allies • Can’t patrol European coast • England trades world wide • Pushed Russia out of alliance

  13. Sir Arthur Wellesley • 1769-1852 • Duke of Wellington (1812)

  14. Duke of Wellington

  15. Apsley House

  16. Battle of Waterloo (1815)

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

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