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