This might be going a bit far. Wellington may have been a better soldier, but certainly not a better general. Napoleon fought and defeated numerous coalitions until the casualties and the opposite numbers finally did him in. I'm not a fan of his role in the European history, but(and it's a big one), his contemporaries were even worse- bent on restoring continental absolutism. Which they succeed, suppressing too many peoples with British blessing. It is only peculiar irony of history that the hard fought settlement of 1815 blew up in their faces in a spectacular fashion in 1914.
No, the Prussians had already attacked Napo and had tied down most of his infantry on the right flank. The reason that the Old Guard failed to break Wellington was that Napo lacked the reserves of infantry to support them. And that infantry was back holding off Blucher at Plancenoit.
And the French are pissed about the commemorative Euro coin.
but all of what you said was a result of NAPOLEANS WARS
It was Jefferson who said it was merely a matter of marching (Abraham Lincoln would have been but 3 1/2 years old).
Oh so very French, excellent in theory, but better put in practice by others- LOL
What Aardy said. New England was a trading and seafaring region and trade w Britain (and France when they could run the RN blockade) was a staple. Much as they resented the RN's high handedness, it was sort of a cost of doing business. Kind of like the client who pays you well, but is an asshole to deal with. The last thing they wanted was a war with Britain. And when war came, the massive British navy blockaded the US Atlantic coast, albeit inefficiently - and raided New England and the Chesapeake, burning and pillaging the little fishing villages. The British even occupied Maine for a couple of years and used it as a base.
I stand corrected
The war was fought in a number of disconnected campaigns, hundreds of miles apart. We held Lake Ontario and Central Ontario. We burned Washington, but got beaten at Baltimore and New Orleans. And crucially, we lost the Battle of Lake Erie to Commodore Perry. This meant we had to evacuate Indiana and Northern Ohio and Western Ontario. As the Americans held Lake Erie, they could isolate and destroy any British and Canadian units who were left West of Brantford. And that pretty much did it for an Indian state in the Midwest - which would not have lasted for more than 10 or 15 years anyway. There were a lot of Americans and they really, really wanted that land.
