So right after the Napoleonic Wars, we had a group that were connected.
Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, one Captain Horatio Hornblower.
People would explore the Napoleonic period.
on warfare during the Napoleonic period or the shape of it, but not in the way he wants.
that's a Napoleonic form of law-- he would inherit, automatically, one third of his father's property.
It probably came from one of the Napoleonic prison-of-war ships, prison hulks.
If anyone knows anything about the Napoleonic period, they usually have heard of this and usually know something about this campaign, where essentially
The scenario was set during the Napoleonic Wars in the fictional town of Braunstein, Germany, surrounded by opposing armies.
the pretense of playing a traditional Napoleonic war game.
country had just moved from Napoleonic code which put women in the same
And this goes all the way back to the Napoleonic Wars.
And this is a pivotal thing for the Napoleonic period because it shifts the alliance structure in what is going on here.
Across the planet since the end of the Napoleonic Wars, roughly 80% of all conflict has been intrastate--
And two of those who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, not on the same side-- the Swiss Germany and the Prussian Clausewitz-- I became the main interpreters
My dad got his PhD in European history specializing in Napoleonic warfare and was a TA.
was 240% of GDP at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
You know, he's Napoleonic in some way, he feels like he deserves more and that he would be perfectly happy as the real Warwick is if he just accepted who he is and just lived
by Napoleon's troops in 1799 so I knew that Napoleonic wars were on I knew
In China the biggest war of the 19th century was not the Napoleonic War, was not the American Civil War.
And there will be a battle here-- a tiny battle for the Napoleonic period-- in a town called And here what happens is Clausewitz's unit
And what you will see is one of the other most famous campaigns of the Napoleonic period, the Waterloo campaign.
It had that effect when Napoleon recodified the law and created the Napoleonic Code, which is now the basis for half the civilized world's law.
They'd meet several times a week to play out traditional Kriegspiel-style Napoleonic battles and board games, including Avalon Hill's "Gettysburg," Parker Brothers'
We call this entire era of 16 years the era of the Napoleonic Wars.
British soldier who's proven himself to be the only commander who can meet Napoleonic generals on even terms and win, and says to him, "My Lord Duke, only you
could have been writing about 1812, the Napoleonic wars, and still, you know, life had changed obviously.
And a decade ago, I was reading Patrick O'Brian's novels about the Napoleonic naval war-- the Aubrey Maturin novels, they're called.
The Congress has met to determine what Europe will look like with the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
One would be "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" which was a historical fantasy novel set in the Napoleonic Wars.
Petersburg, the new Third Reich Fuhrer or whatever looks at the map and goes-- maybe he read some Napoleonic history and goes,
I think this is certainly drawn from his study of history, and some from his experience in the Napoleonic wars, where the wars are fought maybe a year or two.
And we played for like six hours, a single battle, where we were playing Napoleonic miniatures, and I was one of the members of the Prussian army.
Later, he moved on to the hardcore stuff, including Civil War simulations and Napoleonic naval battles.
But, if you look at the entire century and you look at the entire world, you see there were many episodes of mass violence including the Napoleonic Wars with 4 million