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No more Napoleons: British grand strategy in the 19th century

No more Napoleons: British grand strategy in the 19th century

Update: 2025-07-24
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EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Andrew Lambert to discuss his book ‘No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One', Lambert's provocative new study of how Britain maximised its naval and diplomatic prestige to maintain a stable, post-Napoleonic Europe.



Image: 'A squadron of the Royal Navy running down the Channel' by Samuel Atkins (c. 1760-1810). Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd
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No more Napoleons: British grand strategy in the 19th century

No more Napoleons: British grand strategy in the 19th century

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