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Napoleonic Wars
plural noun
- the intermittent wars (1796–1815) waged by France principally against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia.
Napoleonic Wars
plural noun
- the series of wars fought between France, under Napoleon Bonaparte, and (principally) Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, and Austria either alone or in alliances (1799–1815)
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He went to the British Museum every day and he read books about the Napoleonic Wars.
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This condition of affairs lasted till the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Cowes was destined to become a shipbuilding port of some consequence in the days just prior to and during the Napoleonic Wars.
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The Napoleonic Wars put an end to the office of doge at Genoa.
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In more modern days its banks were the scenes of many bloody battles during the Napoleonic Wars.
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In our Napoleonic wars the favourite command alike on land and sea was, "Engage the enemy more closely."
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