Napoleonic Wars
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the great war · the long war of twenty-two years · the war · war with France
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England (English)
reformers who had escaped from the panic caused by revolutionary excesses, and prolonged by Napoleonic aggression, had inherited the distrust of Jacobinical principles.
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The prolonged war with France, whose end is described as opening the era of social and economic change.
reformers who had escaped from the panic caused by revolutionary excesses, and prolonged by Napoleonic aggression, had inherited the distrust of Jacobinical principles.
The termination, indeed, of the great war opened a season of popular distress, which, however, slowly passed, as the century went on, into a time of mercantile and manufacturing prosperity.
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
The twenty-two year war involving Britain and Napoleonic France, which shaped English commercial and financial conditions
The first important crisis of the nineteenth century occurred under quite exceptional circumstances, and though not entirely confined to Great Britain, this country was chiefly affected by it.
The weight of taxation was crushing during the war, the drain for men and material was unprecedented on so small a population, and so great was the stringency in the precious metals that the Bank of England had suspended specie payments since 1797.
Great Britain had been enabled to hold her own during the long war of twenty-two years, had subsidised half Europe against the French, and had supported a weight of taxation previously unknown, because during these twenty-two years the great machine industry and the extension of commerce poured into the pockets of her trading and land-owning classes untold wealth.