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...hed under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–1812, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry....

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...A classic work on military strategy by a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars. The author's style is dialectical: he makes two strong but opposing statements and then draws them together to describe many facets of war. Free of technical jargon, and suitable for modern readers. This audi...

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...The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, accomplished horseman and gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong ...

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...est and loyal; his brother Robert, a merchant seaman and womaniser, and Festus Derriman, the cowardly son of the local squire. Set at the time of the Napoleonic wars, this is the author's only historical novel, and unusually for Hardy's books, some of the characters live happily ever after. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Cori Samuel.)...

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...). The Republic of Venice, had been an independent state for more than a millennium. The Republic wasn't restored at the Congress of Vienna after the Napoleonic Wars and was annexed by the Austrian Empire, until it was ceded to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, as a result of the Third Italian War of Independence....

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...uke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He won several victories, including the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, during which he was killed. These are the letters that he wrote to Lady Hamilton, with whom he was having a notorious affair until his deat...

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...uke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He won several victories, including the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, during which he was killed. These are the letters that he wrote to Lady Hamilton, with whom he was having a notorious affair until his deat...

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...Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven wi...

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...hat our breakfasts all went wrong. Lafaele is absent at the death- bed of his fair spouse; fair she was, but not in deed, acting as harlot to the wrec... ...eard the chimes at midnight; now no more, I guess. But—Fanny and I, as soon as we can get coins for it, are coming to Europe, not to England: I am thi... ...madman, I wouldn’t change my present installation for any post, dignity, honour, or advantage conceivable to me. It fills the bill; I have the lovelie... ...I want a book about Paris, and the first return of the emigres and all up to the cent jours: d’ye ken anything in my way? I want in particular to know... ...ut it has always been a scourge in the islands. Witness the beginning of The Ebb Tide, which was observed long before the Iffle had distinguished hims... ...our, a very nice fellow whom I rec- ommend to you warmly—and whom I think you will like. This will give you time to consider my various and dis- tract...

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...destroyed or disorganised by the outbreak of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars; but as this island was protected through those times by th... ...r disorganised by the outbreak of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars; but as this island was protected through those times by the English f... ...been thrown, when little more than a boy, into the hurricane of Napoleon’s wars; his life had been spent on fields of battle. Of women he knew just so...

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...As dreams of heaven to souls that sleep! And felt, despite earth’s jarring wars, When day is done And dead the sun, Still a voice divine can sing, 35... ... lead, Drink they of thee, thee eyeing, they unaged Shall on through brave wars waged. XIV More gardens will they win than any lost; The vile plucked ... ...Fair Beats tempered music and its lead subserves. Washed from her eyes the Napoleonic glare, Divinely raised by that in her divine, Not the clear sigh... ...orth of merry dingles round the tors; And deftest hand was he from foreign wars, But soon he hailed the home-bred yeoman mate. 477 XX Before the blac...

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...eneral terms. The idea is the idea of united human effort to put an end to wars; the first practical question, that 8 In the Fourth Year must precede... ... conceive no such Peace Congress as those that have settled up after other wars, settling up after this war. Not only has the war been enormously bigg... ...reign threat, and “Peace” remain a mere name for the resting phase between wars. But power over the military resources of the world is by no 27 H.G. ... ...roy you nor humiliate you 53 H.G. Wells nor open up the prospect of fresh wars. The Allies offer you such a peace. T o accept it, we must warn you pl... ...aria. The weakening of the Bourbon system by the French revolution and the Napoleonic adventure cleared the way for the complete ascendancy of the Ger... ...lusions. The wisdom of Kant is justified, and we know now that kings cause wars. It needed the shock of the great war to bring home the wisdom of that... ...indly to get things back to the conditions for which they were trained, to Napoleonic conditions, with infantry and cavalry and comparatively light gu...

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...e, comes to us from the past, with solemn approval, after the close of the Napoleonic wars and before the series of sanguinary surprises held in reser... ... us from the past, with solemn approval, after the close of the Napoleonic wars and before the series of sanguinary surprises held in reserve by the n... ...uch resemble a corpse. The subtle and mani- fold influence for evil of the Napoleonic episode as a school of violence, as a sower of national hatreds,... ...d injustice, cannot well be exaggerated. The nineteenth century began with wars which were the issue of a corrupted revolution. It may be said that th... ...ying contest, which for endless, arduous toil of killing surpasses all the wars 75 Joseph Conrad of history. It has a base for its operations; a base... ...o dawn on the horizon of the Vienna Congress through the subsiding dust of Napoleonic alarums and excursions, has been extinguished by the larger glam... ...ng itself to the severed members of its friends and neighbours. The era of wars so eloquently denounced by the old Republi- cans as the peculiar blood... ...erce grapple of two nations of dif- ferent race, the short era of national wars seems about to close. No war will be waged for an idea. The “nox- ious... ...ted slave of its own detestable ingenuity. It is true, too, that since the Napoleonic time another sort of war-doctrine has been inculcated in a natio...