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/nəˌpoʊɫiˈɑnɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or like Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleonic Wars
How To Use Napoleonic In A Sentence
- She also nullifies the Napoleonic hero (Byron, in biographical readings) and the Wordsworthian ideal as well: the innocence of youth "trailing clouds of glory" is demythisized in Wordsworth's own Lake District landscape in favor of Godwinian education. Radical Imaginings: Mary Shelley's The Last Man
- Compared to that, what happened in the Pacific, except for what we did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is going to seem as remote and routine an example of human folly as the Napoleonic Wars, of interest to historians and hobbyists but of no more importance than any other example of wholesale slaughter you can name. Where we won the War we started by almost losing it
- Among the burglar's loot were Nelson's three precious Naval Gold Medals, a mark of honour awarded to admirals and captains present at certain Naval engagements in the Napoleonic Wars.
- This combined novel and treatise traces the history of an imaginary French fortress from the 4th Century B.C. through the Napoleonic Wars, featuring detailed accounts of seven sieges. Stromata Blog:
- Madame de Stael a French writer of the Napoleonic period , was renowned for her cutting tongue.
- Moreover, the civilianization of the ministerial control of the army in Britain did not become a fixed principle until after the Napoleonic wars.
- Although the inner courtyard was destroyed in 1809 by Napoleonic troops, the walls and battlements remain intact and are worth the 15-minute climb it takes to reach them.
- Horatio Hornblower begins his saga as a young midshipman in the British navy, during the Napoleonic era.
- Compare this with how the victors over France acted after its defeat in the Napoleonic wars.
- During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars the British regular army remained fairly small, but home defence forces such as yeomanry, volunteers, and fencibles proliferated.