Scope note The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) involved Napoleon's French Empire and a shifting set of European allies and opposing coalitions. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French ...
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Part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the naval dockyard was once the home of the British fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and served as the headquarters of Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson from 1784 ...
The win also secured the French as allies, which was exactly the fuel the Americans needed to realistically push back against the British and win the war. Battle of Waterloo The battle, which took ...
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