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Beating Napoleon - How Britain Faced Down Her Greatest Challenge (Paperback)
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Beating Napoleon - How Britain Faced Down Her Greatest Challenge (Paperback)
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'If it had not been for you English, I should have been Emperor of
the East; but wherever there is water to float a ship, we are sure
to find you in our way.' Emperor Napoleon But just thirty-five
years earlier, Britain lacked any major continental allies, and was
wracked by crises and corruption. Many thought that she would
follow France into revolution. The British elite had no such
troubling illusions: defeat was not a possibility. Since not all
shared that certainty, the resumption of the conflict and its
pursuit through years of Napoleonic dominance is a remarkable story
of aristocratic confidence and assertion of national superiority.
Winning these wars meant ruthless imperialist expansion, spiteful
political combat, working under a mad king and forging the most
united national effort since the days of the Armada. And it meant
setting the foundations for the greatest empire the world has ever
known.
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