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| | Trafalgar synopsis Broers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | The Battle of Trafalgar is the culmination, the crucial if hardly the final blow, in the seemingly endless conflict between Britain and France to control the Atlantic world, that Atlantic World which the great French historian of the Annales school, Fernand Braudel called ‘the crossroads of the future’. |
 | | This defeat led to a volte face in his policies of the first order, which saw Napoleon abandon French overseas and maritime ambitions, and to turn France firmly towards the continent of Europe, ultimately replacing the maritime war with the Continental System, made possible by military conquest. |
 | | France henceforth, turned all her efforts towards continental domination, and in the Grand Armée, forged ironically for the purpose of a water borne invasion of Britain, Napoleon had the wherewithal to do so. |
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