Event    From 1803  To 1815

Napoleonic wars

Categories: Armed Forces

Following the French Revolution France, under Napoleon, fought with most of Europe (primarily Britain, Spain, Russia and Austria) in various alliances for over a decade. The fighting spread as far as Egypt, North and South America. Napoleon was finally defeated by Britain, led by the Duke of Wellington, at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. This left the British Empire as the strongest power throughout the world, for a time.

Some descriptions have the Napoleonic wars starting in 1793 with the Peace of Amiens providing a brief interlude in 1802-3, but this early period is more usually called the French Revolutionary wars. During these 22 years 1 in 6 British males over the age of 14 entered the services.

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Napoleonic wars

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Glaziers Hall

The Glaziers Hall The land in this area formed part of the site of the cloist...

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C. F. Gathercole

C. F. Gathercole

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
King's Royal Rifle Corps

King's Royal Rifle Corps

Our picture source and their Wikipedia page gives details about the origins of the regiment in 1756, the changes in its name - formally becoming the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1830 - and its battl...

Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial
Philip Noble Fawcett, LL.M.

Philip Noble Fawcett, LL.M.

Philip Noble Fawcett was born on 7 April 1863 in Dublin, Ireland, the younger child of Henry Fawcett (1835-1882) and Mary Maria Fawcett née Noble (1834-1906). On 1 May 1863 he was baptised in St. P...

Person, Armed Forces, Law, Politics & Administration, Ireland

1 memorial
Rt. Rev. Charles John Klyberg, Bishop of Fulham

Rt. Rev. Charles John Klyberg, Bishop of Fulham

Charles John Klyberg was born on 29 July 1931, the son of Charles Augustine Klyberg (1890-1975) and Ivy Lillian Klyberg née Waddington (1891-1979). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 19...

Person, Armed Forces, Religion, Africa

1 memorial
H. Prior

H. Prior

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial

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Anne Louise Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein

Anne Louise Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein

Born in Paris. Adam Thorpe has written "Conscious of her physical plainness but 'irresistibly seductive' in conversation, her salons were the focal point for pre-revolutionary reform, and eventual...

Person, Literature, France

2 memorials
Emanuel Hospital

Emanuel Hospital

Founded as part of the legacy of Anne, Lady Dacre. Originally it was an almshouse and a school for poor children.

Building, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Bromley Millennium Rock

Bromley Millennium Rock

SE19, Crystal Palace Park

Londonist tells us that there are other such lumps of Lewisian Gneiss around Bromley all transported from Scotland to mark the Millennium...

1 subject commemorated, 3 creators
LSHTM - Ball

LSHTM - Ball

WC1, Gower Street, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

This listed building was designed by Vernor Rees in 1926, one of the first steel-framed buildings ever erected. The balconies are decorat...

1 subject commemorated
St Benet Gracechurch

St Benet Gracechurch

Name derives from the nearby hay (or grass) market. Lost in the Great Fire, rebuilt by Wren, demolished 1876.

Building, Religion

1 memorial