| 单词 | napoleonic war |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNapoleonic War Napoleonic War n. any or all of a series of campaigns against European powers carried out by French armies under Napoleon I between 1800 and 1815, culminating in his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. With the. Usually in plural.This term is sometimes extended to include the revolutionary wars conducted by France from c1792, during which Napoleon rose to prominence. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war Punic War1556 Vandal war1613 American Civil War1775 Seven Years War1775 Revolutionary Wara1784 Peninsular war1811 Great War1815 Mormon war1833 opium war1841 the Thirty Years' War1841 the Thirty Years' War1842 Mexican War1846 Napoleonic War1850 Crimean War1854 Hundred Years War1874 Balkan war1881 Boer War1883 Winter War1939 Six Day War1967 Yom Kippur War1973 Gulf War1981 Falklands conflict1982 1850 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Feb. 153 The long and terrible Napoleonic war came on—the immense armies of France, and Russia, and Austria, and Prussia, and Great Britain, overran the greatest part of Europe. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. iii. 86 The great earthquakes of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. 1894 Athenæum 17 Nov. 669/1 During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic war our seamen wore trousers of striped stuff resembling ‘galatea’. 1925 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 33 88 The sliding scale of duties practiced by England during and after the Napoleonic wars. 1950 Amer. Hist. Rev. 55 310 The Admiralty regulations in force during the Napoleonic wars made it part of a captain's duties to see that not only a captain's log and ship's log were kept but also a muster. 1996 Daily Tel. 10 Apr. 7/5 To market horse effectively as a treat for the table, Mr Walker may have to emulate what the French did in the austerity years after the Napoleonic Wars. < as lemmas |
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