English Foreign Policy

English Foreign Policy

This chronology is intended to replace the conflict between France to England in the early 19th century in its historical context. It will stick to the facts that relate directly to this conflict. It should first keep in mind the age-old animosity that divides the two nations, one essentially maritime, Britain, and other maritime and continental France. Two major events dominated the opposition in the years preceding the French Revolution: the loss of French colonies in North America, the independence of the United States, supported by France. The Napoleonic era not only for the original will to ...