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 ninemsn Encarta - Napoleonic Wars
War, it is recognized, would almost certainly have characterized the first two decades of the 19th century even had he never been born, but academic historians are now all but united in underlining Napoleon's personal responsibility for the conflict.
The war, then, went on, but this was almost certainly exactly what the First Consul wanted, for, having thrown the responsibility for continuing the war on his enemies, he could now seek further victories that would augment his glory and allow him to dictate peace on his own terms.
All the more was this the case as the reduced size of her regular army meant that her chief weapons in any war with France must normally be colonial operations and naval blockades, the trouble with these being that they were inclined to reduce her chances of obtaining the allies she needed in continental Europe.
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 Encyclopedia: War of the Third Coalition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Napoleonic Wars are the wars fought during Napoleon Bonapartes rule of France.
The battle of Cape Finisterre was a naval battle of the War of the Third Coalition in the Napoleonic Wars, fought on 22 July 1805 off Cape Finisterre in northwest Spain between a British fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Robert Calder and a French fleet commanded by Admiral Pierre Charles...
Categories: Napoleonic wars The Napoleonic Wars are the wars fought during Napoleon Bonapartes rule of France.
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 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Napoleonic Wars
The Coalition refused, and Napoleon planned a series of moves against Austria, and various German states in alliance with Austria, for the spring of 1800.
An important consequence of this war was Napoleon's abandonment, because of the need to concentrate his resources in Europe, of his plan to establish a great French colonial empire in the region known as Louisiana in North America.
The ensuing war is known as the War of the Third Coalition.
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 MSN Encarta - Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars were a continuation of the wars of the French Revolution (1789-1799), in which the Habsburgs and other dynastic rulers of Europe combined in an effort to overthrow the revolutionary government of France and restore the rule of the French monarchy.
In the War of the First Coalition (1793-1797), France fought against an alliance consisting of Austria, Prussia, Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, and the Kingdom of Sardinia.
The coalition also captured Milan; put an end to the Cisalpine Republic, which had been formed under French auspices in 1797; occupied Turin; and in general deprived the French of their previous victories in Italy.
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 Third Coalition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This was the first of the coalitions against the French Empire; the preceding ones had been against the French revolutionary state.
Napoleon had been planning an invasion of Britain since the end of the Peace of Amiens in 1803, and had massed 150,000 troops at Boulogne.
The coalition, seeking to take advantage of the concentration of Napoléon's forces at Boulogne, made plans to attack Italy and Bavaria.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_of_the_Third_Coalition   (478 words)

  
 Battle of Ulm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Ulm, of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought in 1805 at Ulm in Wurttemberg.
In 1805, England, Austria, Sweden and Russia formed the Third Coalition to overthrow the French Empire.
When Bavaria sided with Napoleon, the Austrians, 72,000 strong under General Baron Mack von Liebereich, prematurely invaded her, while the Russians were still marching through Poland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Ulm   (386 words)

  
 Prophecies of Nostradamus and beyond
The actual war would be of a short duration but is said to be several times more destructive in terms of the cost of human lives and property than all the previous world wars taken together.
But the actual war would begin after the assassination of a political leader in the Balkan area, who could be the famous "Mabus" often discussed in the context of Nostradamus's prophecies.
It is probable that it is this war that would generate tensions between USA and Russia, since US and Russian fleets are said to confront each other in a tense standoff in the Mediterranean before the war in yet another prophecy.
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 History of Austria -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Austria's performance in the war was distinctly unimpressive, and the expense involved led to further resistance.
Napoleon abdicated on April 3, 1814, and Louis XVIII was restored, soon negotiating a peace treaty with the victorious allies at (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris in June.
The defeat of the (In World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies) Central Powers in 1918 resulted in the disintegration of (A geographical area in central and eastern Europe; broken into separate countries at the end of World War I) Austria-Hungary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_austria.htm   (6639 words)

  
 Napoleonic Wars
After the formation of the Third Coalition against France, he moved his troops from Boulogne to meet the Austrians, who, under Ferdinand III, grand duke of Tuscany, and General Karl Mack von Leiberich, had invaded Bavaria.
Elsewhere in Europe, he made his third brother, Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland (the former Batavian Republic); and on July 12 he established the Confederation of the Rhine, which eventually consisted of all the states of Germany except Austria, Prussia, Brunswick, and Hesse.
Most important in its impact on the nature and frequency of these wars was Napoleon's utter disregard for the cost of his campaigns in bloodshed and lives.
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 Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts fought between France under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte and a number of Europe Nations between 1799 and 1815.
During the Wars (for during this period the fighting was not constant) Warfare was to change and move towards modern warfare leaving behind forever the idea of war as a sport of kings and moving towards the concept of Total War and nations in arms.
As the members of the Fifth coalition decided the fate of Europe Napoleon staged a daring return to power and tried to reverse the outcome of the war at the battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815).
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Moravia
From 1642 Moravia was the theatre of the devastating wars between the imperial forces and the Swedes, who maintained a foothold in the land until the Peace of 1648 (in Olmütz 1650).
The wars begun by Frederick II of Prussia for the possession of Silesia reduced Moravia to a piteous state, especially northern Moravia and Olmütz.
The Napoleonic era did not pass by without leaving a landmark in Moravia, for at Austerlitz, in the centre of the land, was fought the decisive battle of the Third Coalition War, and the subsequent contest between Austria and Napoleon took place partly in Moravia (Battle of Znaim).
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 First War of the Coalition, 1792-1797
Third Phase : Southwestern Germany : Prussia signed the Peace of Basel May 16th 1795; Prussian (and other German) territories on the left bank of the Rhine were ceded to France.
Third Phase : the sea war : Corsica and the French colonies in the Caribbean were occupied by the British.
Massacres (in the Vendee) and the threat of the guillotine (French generals) backfired, as the massacres only strengthened the resolution of the rebels to fight on, and as French generals came to distrust their own government.
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 Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Coalition in the dock
War crimes are always perpetrated by the loser in war.
In the first place, Britain and the US have waged an illegal war, without the sanction of a UN resolution (in itself of dubious legality when it comes to a war launched in violation of the UN charter and fought on this scale).
The pact had outlawed war as an instrument of policy for all the signatory powers, including Britain and the US, but its precise status in international law was open to dispute.
www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,936827,00.html   (1165 words)

  
 US warned it faces 'third Gulf war' in Iraq
On Saturday, three soldiers were killed in a grenade attack while guarding a children's hospital in the city of Baquba and a fourth was killed in an attack on a convoy west of Baghdad.
Forty-nine coalition troops have been killed by militants in Iraq since the beginning of May, and attacks average 10 to 20 a day throughout the country.
Mr Cordesman credits the coalition with avoiding many of the worst-case postwar scenarios, such as massive refugee crisis and wholesale destruction of energy infrastructure.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4236.htm   (482 words)

  
 The Third Coalition (1803-7)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Also in 1803 a third coalition was formed although it did nothing until 1805.
A third coalition was necessary because Napoleon began a quest for military Empire in Europe.
The third Coalition collapsed quickly because British naval victories were again counter-acted by French land victories.
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 napoleon_bonaparte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The new government selected Napoleon to command the French forces in the War of the First Coalition that ran from 1792-1797.
The years 1798-1801 were the time of the War of the Second Coalition.
The War of the Third Coalition ran from 1805 to 1807.
www.ccaurora.edu /his102/napoleon_bonaparte.htm   (665 words)

  
 THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE GREAT CALIPHATE
The war we are now facing did not begin on September 11, 2001, nor will it end with the peaceful transition to civilian authorities in Iraq, whenever that may be.
The war on Iraq also met a very strategic necessity in that no one knew how much collaboration existed between Saddam Hussein and the master planners of the Third Jihad or his willingness to hand off WMDs to terrorist groups including the PLO in Israel.
They see this war as their “entry to paradise” and a release from the miserable existence they have built for themselves within the confines of an evil and perverse religion.
www.insiderreport.net /clash_1-2.html   (3773 words)

  
 The History Guy: The Third Persian Gulf War (2003)
The war continues, as the occupying Coalition troops now face a guerrilla war conducted by those members of the Iraqi Republican Guard, the Saddam Fedayeen and the Shiite militia calling itself the Mahdi Army.
The Second Persian Gulf War began in 1990 with Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait and ended in 1991 with a Coalition of nations under United Nations authority and led by the United States which forcibly ejected the Iraqi military from Kuwait.
The stated goals of the Coalition were the disarmament of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and his Baath political party.
www.historyguy.com /GulfWar2.html   (2417 words)

  
 The Wargamer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Imperial France found itself at war with the Third Coalition consisting of Britain, Austria, Sweden, Naples and Russia.
Prussia entered the war in 1806, but was decisively defeated at Jena-Auerstadt before the Russians could come to their aid.
Most of the major events that took place during that period can be emulated through the playing of the appropriate card, but the random nature of the card draw makes it unlikely that history will repeat itself in the same time frame.
www.wargamer.com /reviews/napoleonic_wars   (667 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Peace by precision
An anti-imperialist critique certainly informs opposition to this war; but it should not be demanded as a prerequisite for those who wish to see an end to it.
It is the "stop the war" movement; not stop all wars or stop a war.
But the growing disillusionment with the war does not translate into the dedicated pursuit of peace without political intervention from the peace movement.
www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,582444,00.html   (1201 words)

  
 Haringey Stop The War Coalition
Bush has to reassemble his international “coalition” of warmongers, and they are beginning to express the doubt that they may not be able to invade Iraq and leave the map of the Middle East intact.
From the beginning of the war, we argued that a “war against terrorism” was counterproductive, immoral and that we would have to pay for it.
War causes massive instability for a number of reasons, not least because millions see their dictators supporting a war against people like them.
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 ipedia.com: Fourth Coalition Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Fourth Coalition was an alliance organized against Napoleon's Empire of France in 1806-1807.
Many members of the coalition had previously been fighting France as part of the Third Coalition, and there was no intervening period of peace.
France rapidly defeated Prussia at the battles of Jena and Auerstadt, and subsequently occupied Prussia, defeated Russia at Friedland, and signed the Treaty of Tilsit, inflicting a humiliating peace on Prussia and ending the war with Russia.
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 Franco-Prussian War and Third Republic (from France) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The war marked the end of French hegemony in continental Europe and resulted in the creation of a unified Germany.
(1672–78), the second war of conquest by Louis XIV of France, whose chief aim in the conflict was to establish French possession of the Spanish Netherlands after having forced the Dutch Republic's acquiescence.
All the ingredients for World War II were mixed together in Germany between 1919 and 1933, the years of the fragile Weimar Republic.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-201142   (868 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Battle of Friedland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Friedland, Battle of (June 14, 1807), victory of Napoleon over the Russians in the War of the Third Coalition.
Napoleonic Wars : conduct of the wars – battles : Battle of Friedland: Tilsit, Treaty of
Before the effect of British sea power could be manifest, however, Napoleon increased his power over the Continent.
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 Napoleon's Conquest of Europe — www.greenwood.com
author of The Wars of Frederick the Great and Tannenberg: Clash of Empires: Schneid increases his stature among the rising generation of U.S. historians of the Napoleonic Wars with this comprehensively researched and economically presented analysis of the War of the Third Coalition.
Napoleon's victory over the Third Coalition was the product of years of diplomatic preparation and the formation of French alliances.
This war must be understood in the context of the French Revolution and its influence on major and minor European states.
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 The Third Balkan War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The contours of a Third Balkan War are emerging.
The imminent Serb-Croat war is a logical result of the infighting between Kostunica and Djindjic.
In such a war, the West's inexperienced and casualty-shy soldiers are bound to be massacred.
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 Is the U. S. Addicted to War?  READ THIS BOOK TO FIND OUT!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
"War may be the "health of the state," as Randolph Bourne warned when a pacifist population was being driven to World War I by hysterical propaganda, but it is the curse of the people -- the attackers and the victims.
is not only a witty and entertaining portrait of our military war dependent economy but a truly relevant insight not available in mainstream media, something our children should know before they must make their choice to become fodder for the military machine.
It shows that the current war dance by the Bush administration is just the latest in a long series of foreign adventures that cause more damage than reward for us as a country.
www.addictedtowar.com   (1263 words)

  
 University Press of Florida: Counterpoint to Trafalgar
A masterful portrayal of the complexities of coalition warfare, with its court intrigues and diplomatic betrayal, military brilliance and incompetence, strong leadership and moral weakness.
Flayhart is especially skilled at sketching the personalities of the generals, diplomats, and politicians involved in planning and carrying out the enterprise.
Counterpoint to Trafalgar offers the first detailed account of the important land and sea campaign in the Napoleonic wars: the Anglo-Russian invasion of Naples, which prevented Napoleon from controlling the Mediterranean during the war of the third coalition.
www.upf.com /book.asp?id=FLAYHF04   (289 words)

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