Napoleonic Wars

American  

plural noun

1. the intermittent wars (1796–1815) waged by France principally against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia.

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Napoleonic Wars British  

plural noun

1. the series of wars fought between France, under Napoleon Bonaparte, and (principally) Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, and Austria either alone or in alliances (1799–1815)

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Napoleonic Wars

I called it “A Fabulous Debt” after a British historian who studied U.K. debt following the Napoleonic Wars, when the debt-to-GDP ratio hit 200% to 300%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

The War of 1812 was fought in North America between the United States and the United Kingdom as the Napoleonic Wars were drawing toward an end in Europe.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

That often-less-heralded side of Scott has been there from his first feature, 1977’s “The Duellists,” which sets an obsessive two-man feud against the sweep of the Napoleonic Wars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

The great struggles of the past, he points out, were primarily coalition wars—the Napoleonic Wars, for example, and the two world wars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

He had first expressed an interest in setting the poem to music when he was in his early twenties, before the full weight of the Napoleonic Wars began to envelop Europe.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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