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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by Great Britain.
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What did you tell Cornichet?" he asked suddenly.
.."Nothing."
"I assume they only just started on you."
She didn't reply.
"What did they want to know?"
"What right do you have to take me prisoner?" she countered. "I'm no enemy of the English. I help the partisans, not the French."
"As long as there's some profit in it for you, as I understand it," he said, his voice a whip crack in the dim hovel. "Don't pretend to patriotic loyalty..."
"And just what business is it of yours?" she demanded furiou
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― Violet
― Violet
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It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. Captain Frederick Wentworth in Pers
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
