Click2Flicks - Vanity Fair - Napoleonic Wars - Chapter 2

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>VANITY FAIR</p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 2 - NAPOLEONIC WARS</p></b></font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Outside of England, British men and ships were fighting against <a target="_blank" href="images/david.napoleon.study.jpg"><b>Napoleon</b></a> and his forces. <a target="_blank" href="images/h.nelson.jpg"><b>Horatio Nelson</b></a> destroyed the French <a target="_blank" href="images/fleet.jpg"><b>fleet</b></a> near Alexandria, Egypt in <a target="_blank" href="images/august1798.jpg"><b>August of 1798</b></a>. Known as the <a target="_blank" href="images/battle.nile.jpg"><b>Battle of the Nile</b></a>, during which the French ship <i>L’Orient</i> famously <a target="_blank" href="images/exploded.jpg"><b>exploded</b></a>, Nelson denied Napoleon his dream of conquering India. Despite such setbacks, however, Napoleon’s <a target="_blank" href="images/kingdom.jpg"><b>kingdom</b></a> <a target="_blank" href="images/grew.jpg"><b>grew</b></a>.</p> <p>Attempts at <a target="_blank" href="images/peace.jpg"><b>peace</b></a> were <a target="_blank" href="images/short.lived.jpg"><b>short-lived</b></a>. <a target="_blank" href="images/before.jpg"><b>Well before</b></a> 1812, when he <a target="_blank" href="images/invaded.jpg"><b>invaded</b></a> the Russian Empire with his <a target="_blank" href="images/grande.jpg"><b><i>Grande Armée</i></b></a> of 600,000 men, Napoleon was himself a <a target="_blank" href="images/bonafide.emperor.jpg"><b>bonafide Emperor</b></a>. (Approximately 270,000 of those Russia-invading troops were French; the rest were from allied countries or subject powers.)</p> <p>Russia employed a scorched-earth policy, usually with bloody (but indecisive) results. Even when <a target="_blank" href="images/napoleon.Vereschagin.jpg"><b>Napoleon</b></a> and his men <a target="_blank" href="images/captured.jpg"><b>captured</b></a> (and <a target="_blank" href="images/largely.jpg"><b>largely</b></a> <a target="_blank" href="images/burned.unknown.german.jpg"><b>burned</b></a>) Moscow (on <a target="_blank" href="images/14septVereschagin.jpg"><b>14 September</b></a> 1812), Tsar <a target="_blank" href="images/alexanderi.jpg"><b>Alexander I</b></a> refused to give up.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="vanity_fair_ch1.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER </a>     <a href="vanity_fair_ch3.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>