The Napoleonic Wars
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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
• 1769-1821
Effects in Britain
• Discouraged domestic reform
• Encouraged domestic anti-Jacobinism
British War Aims
• Economic?
• Political?
• Ideological?
• Liberation
Conduct of the War
• Pitt as war minister
• Coalition
• Battle of the Nile (1798)
• Amiens (1802)
Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
Lord Nelson1758-1805
Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
The Continental System
• Blockade against British goods
System Failed
• Hurt France’s allies
• Can’t patrol European coast
• England trades world wide
• Pushed Russia out of alliance
Sir Arthur Wellesley
• 1769-1852• Duke of Wellington
(1812)
Duke of Wellington
Apsley House
Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Conduct of the Peace
• Congress of Vienna (1814-15)
• Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, France
• No major grudges
• Balance of power restored