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John Bull, a national personification of England, holds the head of Napoleon after a conjectured French invasion. 1803 caricature by James Gillray. Though the fleet-test was unsuccessful, Britain continued to be on high alert with defences from invasion.
Napoleon's plans to invade Britain failed due to the inferiority of his navy, and in 1805, Lord Nelson's fleet decisively defeated the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar, which was the last significant naval action of the Napoleonic Wars. The Battle of Trafalgar by Clarkson Stanfield, 1836
Plans to invade British North America pushed the United States to declare war on Britain in the War of 1812, but it did not become an ally of France. Grievances over control of Poland , and Russia's withdrawal from the Continental System, led to Napoleon invading Russia in June 1812.
British anti-invasion preparations of 1803–05 were the military and civilian responses in the United Kingdom to Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom. They included mobilization of the population on a scale not previously attempted in Britain, with a combined military force of over 615,000 in December 1803. [ 1 ]
Royal navy won a battle; a small-scale Jacobite invasion was defeated; Treaty of The Hague: Spanish attempt at expansion fails. Dummer's War (1721–1725) New England Colonies Mohawk: Wabanaki Confederacy: British victory. Britain recognises the rights of the region's indigenous inhabitants. The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1748)
The loss of Britain as a trading partner also hit the economies of France and its allies. [7] Angry governments gained an incentive to ignore the Continental System, which led to the weakening of Napoleon's coalition. [8] As Napoleon realised that extensive trade was going through Spain and Russia, he invaded those two
The continued failure of Napoleon to marshal his navies as he did his armies meant that the invasion of England never occurred. Already postponed several times, Villeneuve's defeat at Finisterre and his final failure to link up with the Rochefort and Brest fleets caused Napoleon to abandon his plans in favour of a march eastward. [33]
On 31 July, Napoleon ordered Talleyrand to tell Denmark to prepare for war against Britain or else Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte would invade Holstein. [11] Neither Talleyrand nor Jackson persuaded the Danes to end their neutrality, so Jackson went back to the British fleet assembled in the Sound on 15 August.