Napoleonic Wars
| Date | 1803 - 1815 |
|---|---|
| Description | A global series of conflicts fought between the France under First Consul and Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, against a fluctuating array of European coalitions, all directed by Britain. |
The Napoleonic Wars were a global series of conflicts fought between the French First Republic (1803–1804)/First French Empire (1804–1815) under the First Consul and Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, against a fluctuating array of European coalitions, to a large degree directed by Britain.
“Between two attempts in 1800 and 1804 to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a campaign of black propaganda of unprecedented scope and intensity to persuade George III's reluctant subjects to fight the Napoleonic War, a war to the death against one man: the Corsican usurper and tyrant. We have been taught to think of Napoleon as the aggressor - a man with an unquenchable thirst for war and glory - but what if this story masked the real truth: that the British refusal to make peace either with revolutionary France or with the man who claimed to personify the revolution was the reason this Great War continued for more than twenty years? At this pivotal moment when it consolidated its place as number one world power Britain was uncompromising. To secure the continuing rule of Church and King, the British invented an evil enemy, the perpetrator of any number of dark deeds; and having blackened Napoleon's name, with the help of networks of French royalist spies and hitmen, they also tried to assassinate him.”
Tim Clayton (2018) [1]
References
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/This-Dark-Business-Against-Napoleon-ebook/dp/B079M2CGZ6 Also chapter 1 in This Dark Business: The Secret War Against Napoleon, ISBN 978-0349142388, page 10
