Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Horatio Hornblower" ¶ 1
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Napoleonic and Wars
After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the Alpine countries began to see an influx of poets, artists, and musicians, as visitors came to experience the sublime effects of monumental nature.
* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
* 1799 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
In 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars, the Kingdom of Prussia took over and the city became one of its most socially and politically backward centres until the end of the 19th century.
* 1801 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen – The British capture the Danish fleet.
The Arc de Triomphe ( in English: " Triumphal Arch ") honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces.
Also inscribed, on the shorter sides of the four supporting columns, are the names of the major victorious battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
* Some great battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are engraved on the attic, including
Artillery is the most lethal form of land-based armament ; in the Napoleonic Wars, World War I and World War II the vast majority of combat deaths were caused by artillery.
* 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when Austria invades Bavaria.
Following Wagram, Charles saw no more significant action in the Napoleonic Wars.
Wellington is better-known to posterity, because he led one of the two Allied armies at the final decisive victory of the Napoleonic Wars ( the battle of Waterloo in 1815 ), although Wellington's superior reputation is perhaps also because he only once faced Napoleon, whereas Charles was confronted by Napoleon in battle more times than any other commander.
In 1815 following the Napoleonic Wars, Bonn became part of the Kingdom of Prussia.
* Invasion of Cayenne ( 1809 ) ( 1809 ): Was a combined military operation by an Anglo-Portuguese-Brazilian expeditionary force against Cayenne, capital of the French South American colony of French Guiana in 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Category: Battles of the Napoleonic Wars
These proved crucial in 1813 and 1814, when Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington's army besieged the city in the Napoleonic Wars, only taking it when they used a bridge of ships across the Adour to position artillery around the city.
Throughout its history, the British Army has seen action in a number of major wars involving the worlds great powers, including the Seven Years ' War, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, World War I and World War II.
The territorial ambitions of the French led to the War of the Spanish Succession and the Napoleonic Wars.
Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).
The British Army was heavily involved in the Napoleonic Wars in which the army served in multiple campaigns across Europe ( including continuous deployment in the Peninsular War ), the Caribbean, North Africa and later in North America.
The dynasty was in a position of power for around a decade until the Napoleonic Wars began to take their toll.
As well as industrial uses, the Royal Military Canal on the Romney Marsh was built so as create a barrier against invading troops, and hiding places for British troops during the Napoleonic Wars.
Clausewitz served in the Rhine Campaigns ( 1793 – 1794 ) including the Siege of Mainz, when the Prussian army invaded France during the French Revolution, and served in the Napoleonic Wars from 1806 to 1815.

Napoleonic and progress
Although the Russian Empire would play a leading political role in the next century, secured by its defeat of Napoleonic France, its retention of serfdom precluded economic progress of any significant degree.
The BUS was launched in the midst of a major global market readjustment as Europe recovered from the Napoleonic Wars The central bank was charged with restraining uninhibited private bank note issue – already in progress – that threatened to create a credit bubble and the risks of a financial collapse.
Reformers and Radicals sought parliamentary reform, but as the Napoleonic Wars developed the British government became repressive against dissent and progress towards reform was stalled.
In the wake of the French Revolution of 1789, Radical organisations such as the London Corresponding Society sprang up to press for reform, but as the Napoleonic Wars developed the government took extensive stern measures against feared domestic unrest and progress toward reform was stalled.
Reformers and Radicals sought parliamentary reform, but as the Napoleonic Wars developed the government became repressive against dissent and progress toward reform was stalled.
Cornwell's series ( composed of several novels and short stories ) charts Sharpe's progress in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
Moreover, equipment and munition shortages suffered during the Turkish War in Libya ( 1911 – 1912 ) slowed progress and frustrated all hopes for a " Napoleonic style " breakout.

Napoleonic and gains
The Congress implemented a new partition scheme, which took into account some of the gains realized by the Poles during the Napoleonic period.
Holding his power by universal male suffrage, and having frequently, from his prison or in exile, reproached previous oligarchical governments with neglecting social questions, he set out to solve them by organising a system of government based on the principles of the " Napoleonic Idea ", i. e. of the emperor, the elect of the people as the representative of the democracy, and as such supreme ; and of himself, the representative of the great Napoleon I of France, " who had sprung armed from the French Revolution like Minerva from the head of Jove ", as the guardian of the social gains of the revolutionary period.
Even Louisiana, in a rare departure from the Napoleonic code, was forced to adopt the ganancial community system while under Spanish rule ( renamed " community of acquests and gains "), thus ousting the traditional French community of movables and acquests .< ref > The author of the Louisiana Code was Moreau Lislet ; see Hans W. Baade, " Transplants of Laws and of Lawyers ",, retrieved 3 Dec. 2010 <>.</ ref >
* The end of Napoleon I's rule and the Congress of Vienna, which confirmed the territorial gains Baden had made during the Napoleonic era.

Napoleonic and promotion
The down-sizing of the Navy after the end of the Napoleonic Wars made promotion prospects poor, and Cochrane switched to a career as a barrister, apparently joining the Middle Temple without first attending a university.
He continued his service in many battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including Hohenlinden in 1800 ( in which he was wounded ), the Hanover region ( earning him promotion to Major General in 1803 ), Austerlitz in 1805 ( his first battle as Division commander ) and one in which his division played a pivotal role, and Jena in 1806.
Count Joseph Lagrange ( 10 January 1763 – 16 January 1836 ) was a French soldier who rose through the ranks and gained promotion to the rank of general officer during the French Revolutionary Wars, subsequently pursuing a successful career during the Napoleonic Wars and winning promotion to the top military rank of General of Division.

Napoleonic and steadily
Residual military conflict resulting from the Napoleonic Wars in Europe had been steadily worsening throughout James Madison's first term, with the British and the French both ignoring the neutrality rights of the United States at sea and seizing American ships.
The Napoleonic Wars ended the large-scale movement of Germans to the Hungarian lands, although the colonial population increased steadily and was self-sustaining through reproduction.

Napoleonic and result
The made-up embankment which today extends the whole length of the town's riverbank is the result of 19th century land reclamation, started in earnest when the town played host to a large number of prisoners of war from the Napoleonic Wars which formed a captive workforce.
The German Confederation was created by an act of the Congress of Vienna on 8 June 1815 as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, after being alluded to in Article 6 of the 1814 Treaty of Paris.
As a result of this, a great number of soldiers from Hanover eventually emigrated to Great Britain, leading to the formation of the King's German Legion, which was the only German army to fight throughout the entire Napoleonic wars against the French.
Santiago de Compostela was captured and sacked by the French during the Napoleonic Wars ; as a result, the remains attributed to the apostle were lost for near a century, hidden inside a cist in the crypts of the cathedral of the city.
The Republic wasn't restored at the Congress of Vienna after the Napoleonic Wars and was annexed by the Austrian Empire, until it was ceded to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, as a result of the Third Italian War of Independence.
As a direct result of the Napoleonic wars, the British Empire became the foremost world power for the next century, thus beginning Pax Britannica.
Seized by the spirit of revolution following the American and French Revolutions, as well as bridling as a result of the forced separation from Denmark and subordination to Sweden subsequent to the Napoleonic wars, Norwegians signed their first constitution in 1814.
As a result of conflict in Europe, the British occupied Padang from 1781 to 1784 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and again from 1795 to 1819 during the Napoleonic Wars.
It was created as an indirect result of Britain ’ s involvements in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars ( 1793 – 1815 ).
In 1814, as a result of the Napoleonic Wars Swedish Pomerania was ceded to Denmark in exchange for Norway in the Treaty of Kiel, and in 1815, as a result of the Congress of Vienna, transferred to Prussia.
As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, by 1806 the Holy Roman Empire was under the control of French emperor Napoleon I. Napoleon dissolved the empire ; this had broad consequences for Liechtenstein: imperial, legal and political mechanisms broke down.
This was the result of the Napoleonic Wars and of direct military pressure from Napoléon Bonaparte.
Perhaps the oldest bonds still outstanding as a result of war are the British Consols, some of which are the result of the refinancing of debts incurred during the Napoleonic Wars.
The policy originated largely as a result of Sweden's involvement in the Napoleonic Wars during which over a third of the country's territory was lost, including the traumatic loss of Finland to Russia.
As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, Salzburg was secularised in the early 19th century.
In the American Revolutionary war and the Napoleonic Wars, the SLOCs were for the most part, in the control of the British Navy — when the British lost control of them during the Revolution, the result was the loss of Yorktown and its biggest army, and ultimately the war.
As a result, this was the last successful attack on a British merchant convoy in the Indian Ocean during the Napoleonic Wars.
This club sustained cricket in Sussex through the Napoleonic Wars and, as a result, the county team was very strong in the 1820s when it included the great bowlers Jem Broadbridge and William Lillywhite.
It was created in 1808 as a result of the great famine and cholera epidemic of the Napoleonic Wars.
Although most of the confusion over " absolute war " is the result of sloppy reading ( or no reading ) of Clausewitz's actual discussion in Book One of On War ( the only part of Clausewitz's unfinished draft that he considered to be in finished form ), some careful readers point out that there are several references in later sections of the book ( which, somewhat confusingly, are derived from earlier drafts ) to " absolute war " that reflect an earlier conception of such war as simply the more extreme reaches of the forms that Napoleonic warfare had actually achieved.

0.929 seconds.