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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 furio
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Many who read this, especially in these peaceful times, may suppose this was a cruel and unnecessary severity under the dreadful and harassing circumstances of that retreat; but I, who was there, and was, besides, a common soldier of the very regiment to which these men belonged, say it was quite necessary. No man but one formed of stuff like General Craufurd could have saved the brigade from perishing altogether; and, if he flogged two, he saved hundreds from death by his management. I detest t
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