Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom at the start of the War of the Third Coalition, although never carried out, was a major influence on...
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French Imperial Navy (section Napoleon's reforms)
the old French Navy under The Republic. It notably saw action at the Battle of Trafalgar, and its defeat prevented Napoleon's planned invasion of the...
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anti-invasion preparations of 1803–05 were the military and civilian responses in the United Kingdom to Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom....
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(1744) Planned French invasion of Britain (1759), an abandoned invasion of Britain in 1759 Napoleon's invasion of the United Kingdom, a French plan to invade...
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part because Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom was not called off until 27 August 1805, when he decided to use his invasion force camped...
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inadequate and Napoleon's forces had to rely in part on requisitions from conquered lands. Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom War of the First Coalition...
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John Bolton (merchant) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
During the Napoleonic Wars, he raised an 800-strong battalion of the Liverpool Volunteers regiment to defend against Napoleon's planned invasion of the United...
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Édouard Thomas Burgues de Missiessy (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
squadron was a key element in Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom; intended to rendezvous with Villeneuve's fleet in the West Indies and draw British...
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100 Greatest Britons (section The list)
Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, were both Anglo-Irish in what is now the Republic of Ireland when all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, and Alexander...
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Dover Castle (redirect from The Dover Castle)
AD 39 by order of the Emperor Caligula, possibly in preparation for an invasion of Britain. Suetonius refers to Caligula's "erection of a tall lighthouse...
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