If she'd written about the Napoleonic Wars no one would have read her books.
Thousands of people will be experiencing a flavour of the Napoleonic Wars - in Torbay, Devon.
The sinking fund continued in operation through the Napoleonic wars, though in an increasingly bizarre fashion.
ECONOMIST: What did early 19th-century literary characters live on?
The British income tax had been 10% during the Napoleonic Wars and 6.6% during the Crimean War.
FORBES: Two Of The All-Time Greatest Successes In Cutting Taxes And Spending
After all, Britain, the Scandinavian countries and other parts of Europe experienced modernizing reforms without convulsions like the Terror and the Napoleonic wars.
The Decembrists were young noblemen who had gone to fight in the Napoleonic wars and returned to Russia from Europe filled with dangerous new ideas.
Coram's Fields was part of an 18th-century foundling hospital, while Tooting Bec Common was reputedly a transit camp for soldiers heading off to the Napoleonic Wars.
After the capture of Calais in 1347, there simply aren't the battles, year after year, in the same way as there were during the Napoleonic wars.
Its unilateral move towards free trade began at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and culminated in the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.
The composer transformed that melodrama into an operatic touchstone, keeping the play's setting Rome during the Napoleonic Wars but using music to heighten the ill-starred love story and its political subtext.
WSJ: Maria Callas | Puccini's Tosca | The Measure of a Diva | Masterpiece by David Mermelstein
William Pitt the Younger, however, discovered the downside of discounted bonds when he tried to reduce the national debt during the lull between the American war and the Napoleonic wars.
ECONOMIST: What did early 19th-century literary characters live on?
Such groups taught Germans to prefer Abstand to the French Distanz and Augenblick to Moment. (Some coinages failed: Meuchelpuffer was shot down by Pistole.) The Napoleonic wars and, later, the German empire brought more linguistic cleansing.
The evolution of the stiff upper lip is unexpectedly complex - emerging out of the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars as a reaction to what Britain's rulers felt was a dangerous unleashing of unrestrained passion on the continent.
Other embroidery features on the 2015 embroidery panel will depict visits by both Queen Elizabeth I and II, the founding of the veterinary profession in Britain, and French prisoners of war held on parole at Odiham and North Warnborough during the Napoleonic Wars.
Democracy led to the Terror and Napoleonic Wars after the French Revolution in 1789.
For the British, the war was mostly an annoying distraction from the more-important Napoleonic Wars.
WSJ: 1812 | Canadian War Museum | Four Ways to Look at a War | By Mark Yost
应用推荐