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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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