19 dic 1810 anni - Britian at war

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Britain fought the Americans in their War of Independence. In the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, the British army and navy locked horns with France in Europe, the Caribbean, Egypt and India. The War of the Austrian Succession had no decisive outcome. Britain famously lost the American War of Independence, but triumphed in the Seven Years' War and in the wars against France that culminated in Wellington's victory over Napoleon at Waterloo. The financial means to wage war extensively after 1793 permitted Britain to forge a global empire by 1815 that was impressive in its scope and stronger in both the Atlantic and Indian oceans and around their shores than any other European state had achieved. All of these wars were made possible by two things. One a strong naval presence. The other is a strong national economy driven by trade and an industrialized nation with a huge workforce population. Those two went hand in hand in creating a massive navy affording a country small in size to fight huge in battle.

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