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Napoleonic Wars and Plums

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The Polyanic Wars

In 1803, it was Napoleon Napoleon Napoleon and we I guess when you say the polyanic wars were talking about those 12 years that ended finally in Waterloo in 1815. And he was very small guy and he was a brilliant. He was an artillery officer that came to the attention of the directorate. That was that five person group that assumed control from the Thermador reaction and then the consulship. The revolution had introduced the idea of an army, a nation and arms, a mass levy of conscription. So until Britain caught on or Prussia caught on, or Russia caught on Napoleon from 1803 to 1811 or 12 ran wild except for the peninsula war in Spain

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