Napoleonic Wars

been bad for the economy? So it's interesting.

Wars are bad things.

We should be absolutely clear about that.

Lots of people killed, lots of suffering.

Wars are bad things.

But one interesting thing, I think, is in the longer run, and I mean the real longer run here, Wars have been an important driver of economic change, of economic growth.

Because fundamentally, for most of human history, until really the 19th century, the 20th century, what states did was fight wars and prepare for wars.

Education, health, local government, all of this is tiny.

Elizabeth Bessie Shepherd was 17 years old when she was murdered in 1817.

She had been walking toward Mansfield on Nottingham Road near Harlow Wood looking for work, and she encountered a former Napoleonic War veteran, Charles Rotherham, who had been drinking at the nearby Hutt Public House.

Charles beat Bessie to death with a hedge stake, and his intention was to rob her, and then when he realized she wasn't carrying any money, he stole her yellow umbrella and her shoes.

He then returned back to the hut in an attempt to sell her stolen shoes and umbrella.

He is a writer who basically kind of tells you what the story is while he's telling you it.

War and Peace is about the Napoleonic Wars.

It is about Napoleon rampaging through Europe and heading into Russia.

While Russia is under attack, the story of War and Peace is about a kind of group of aristocrats, rich people.

And it's great that you remind me of this very important point, which is if you had to describe it in a word, it's basically war and peace, but set in the Second World War.

Whereas war and peace is in the Napoleonic Wars.

I've never read war and peace, I'm ashamed to say.

I will one day.

I don't know.

It was Napoleonics.

So I think it must have been the Charles Grant's Wargaming with Napoleonics book.

And there was a set of rules in the back of that.

I would like maybe to go back and have a look.

I lost it years ago.

If

World War II is your favorite period, what's the unit you always want to get on the table? And then you said for Napoleonics, do you have a unit? It's like, man, I just want to get them.

He was a real Scotsman, born into an aristocratic family who became one of Britain's most daring naval officers before finding himself at the centre of a scandal that would follow him for years.

His story takes us from the Scottish countryside to the Napoleonic Wars, from the corridors of Westminster to the revolutionary struggles of South America, and eventually to the far side of the world.

And along the way we'll discover that being a national hero doesn't necessarily mean being an easy man to get along with.

Because Thomas Cochrane had a gift for winning battles.

In 1800 Cochrane was promoted to lieutenant.

Two years later he became a commander and in 1805 he was promoted to post-captain.

His rise came during the Napoleonic Wars when Britain's naval supremacy was essential to its survival.

Cochrane's reputation was built on a simple principle.

Valor Mortis is not like that.

It is a first-person Souls-like set in the Napoleonic Wars era.

You are a...

Your character named William, who was a soldier for Napoleon Bonaparte, they all got defeated in some battle.

After that, Prussia would be the preeminent power.

So, what was the big picture that came out of the Congress? Well, the Congress of Vienna did not simply restore the pre-Napoleonic world.

It created a new European balance of power, in which Russia expanded its influence in Eastern Europe, Prussia strengthened its position in Germany, Australia...

Austria consolidated its influence in Germany, Italy and Central Europe.