BRITAINS HISTORY OF WARS

Britain's History of Wars

Britain's History of Wars

Introduction

The British Isles have a wealthy annals going back thousands of years. Unfortunately couple of us in Britain actually understands much about our history. Retrospectively I believe there should have been certain thing fundamentally flawed with annals as it is educated in our schools as our annals is fascinating.

For this annals direct, we will split up the time span of British annals into four major chunks, and each of these four major chunks then subdivided into gnaw dimensions sections that trial to interpret the way that things occurred (Adair 2009).

History is an interweaving of happenings and persons, and it's not just about monarchs and rulers, it's about commonplace persons and how happenings leveraged them, and on events how they leveraged events.

Also one has to appreciate that Britain is not one territory, but a hodge podge of distinct peoples who are inclined to stay distinct in spite of a millennium or more of intermarriage. I have thus put in distinct sections on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, each with its own annals.

 

Discussion

 

Napoleon contrary to Britain: AD 1800-1802

The confrontation between France and Britain, relentlessly at conflict since 1793, tends habitually in the direction of stalemate. The two countries are equally agreed but have very distinct strengths. Britain has a much lesser community (11 million in evaluation to 27 million in France in 1801). This handicap is counteract by Britain's riches (from a more evolved finances and comprehensive overseas trade) and by the British superiority at sea. In 1803 France has 23 boats of the line; Britain has 34 in service and another 77 in book (Burton 2002).

 For these causes the British assistance to any conflict contrary to France in continental Europe is mostly restricted to supplying capital for akin armies.

The naval conflict between Britain and France is a odd one - not so much a ocean conflict as a seaboard area war. It is the enduring anxiety of the British navy, instructing the oceans, to damage France and her partners by stopping any merchant boats other than those of Britain from coming to continental ports. And it is the enduring anxiety of the French detachments, instructing the land, to avert British vessels going into those identical ports.

Third parties bear as much as any individual from this pattern of financial warfare, especially after Britain adopts the principle of grabbing items conveyed by the boats of neutral countries if they are destined for a harbor under blockade.

Indignation at this British principle, intensified by diplomatic force from Napoleon, prompts Russia, Sweden and Denmark to pattern in December 1800 a League of Armed Neutrality. They affirm the Baltic docks out of bounds to British ships. The embargo is reinforced when the Danes grab Hamburg, the major harbor for British trade with the German states.

Britain answers by dispatching a naval fleet into the Baltic. The second-in-command is Nelson, who sails into superficial and well kept protected waters in Copenhagen harbor. There is hefty battling, throughout which the commander of the ...