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Mr [[Beachem]] was born during the Napoleonic Wars, and [[Edward Grainger]] guessed that he was born in [[1812]] when recalling their encounter. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Childhood Living (short story)|Childhood Living]]'') | Mr [[Beachem]] was born during the Napoleonic Wars, and [[Edward Grainger]] guessed that he was born in [[1812]] when recalling their encounter. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Childhood Living (short story)|Childhood Living]]'') | ||
==History== | |||
===The War=== | |||
====Trafalgar==== | |||
{{main|Battle of Trafalgar}} | |||
[[File:HMSTARDIS.jpg|thumb|right|[[Horatio Nelson]]'s death. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[H.M.S. TARDIS (short story)|H.M.S. TARDIS]]'')]] | |||
According to the [[Second Doctor]], the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] was the most important [[English]] victory by sea in the Napoleonic Wars. On [[21 October]] [[1805]], the [[Royal Navy]], led by Lord Admiral [[Horatio Nelson]], defeated a [[French]] and [[Spanish]] fleet. However, Nelson was killed in the fighting. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] mentioned that he had breakfast with Nelson the day before the battle. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eye of Heaven (novel)|Eye of Heaven]]'') | |||
Prior to the battle, the [[Players|Player]] known as the [[Countess]] attempted to ensure Napoleon's victory by helping [[Fulton]] develop a prototype submarine, known as the ''[[Nautilus (World Game)|Nautilus]]''. With the machine limited in its ability to move underwater with the technologies at hand, the Countess had attempted to enhance its power by providing Fulton with an omega drive, but the [[Second Doctor]] was able to sabotage the drive and convince Fulton and Napoleon to abandon the plan. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') | |||
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond]] visited a different ship during the battle. It was fleeing from what they believed to be a [[Kraken]]. It was actually a [[21st century]] aircraft carrier brought back in time by an infestation of [[Time Roach]]es. The Doctor sent it back into the [[Time Vortex]], causing the carrier to return to its own time. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Rough Waters (comic story)|Rough Waters]]'') | |||
After the English won the battle, Nelson was shot down by a sniper. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') The [[Second Doctor]], [[Ben Jackson]] and [[Polly Wright]] visited Nelson's ship during the battle. The Doctor tried to change history by preventing Nelson's death, but was unsuccessful. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[H.M.S. TARDIS (short story)|H.M.S. TARDIS]]'') In his dying words, Nelson addressed the Doctor, [[Thomas Hardy]] and a [[Sea Devil]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gallery of Ghouls (audio story)|Gallery of Ghouls]]'') | |||
Sometime before their [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]], the Doctor told [[Iris Wildthyme]] that he was instrumental at Trafalgar. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') The Doctor later told [[Izzy Sinclair]] that he used a sextant to calculate the position of Napoleon's fleet at Trafalgar. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fire and Brimstone (comic story)|Fire and Brimstone]]'') The Fourth Doctor claimed to have "whipped up" an advantageous [[storm]] which helped lead [[England]] to victory. The Doctor recalled being specifically thanked for his key role in the battle by Nelson himself as he lay dying, with the Admiral's final words constituting a request that the Doctor [[kiss]] him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gallery of Ghouls (audio story)|Gallery of Ghouls]]'') | |||
====Interim==== | |||
In [[1812]], Napoleon was at the [[Russia]]n front when he met the [[First Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mother Russia (audio story)|Mother Russia]]'') On that occasion or possibly during another encounter prior to their [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]], the Doctor advised "Boney" that "an [[army]] marches on its [[stomach]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'') Like the First Doctor, [[Iris Wildthyme]] met Napoleon on the Russian front in 1812 and claimed that, in spite of what the history books said, he was "anything but small." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Panda Invasion (audio story)|The Panda Invasion]]'', ''[[Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa (audio story)|Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa]]'') | |||
As Napoleon's forces advanced on the [[city]] of [[Moscow]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] met [[Dusha]], a local [[girl]] who he later found was the emotional half of a [[Magellan (Emotional Chemistry)|Magellan]] who had been divided and exiled from the future to two different [[time zone]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Emotional Chemistry (novel)|Emotional Chemistry]]'') | |||
Also in 1812, Napoleon's troops marched on the home[[town]] of [[Ileana de Santos]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Loups-Garoux (audio story)|Loups-Garoux]]'') | |||
====Waterloo==== | |||
{{main|Battle of Waterloo}} | |||
The [[Battle of Waterloo]] took place on [[18 June]] [[1815]] in the [[Belgium|Belgian]] province of [[Waterloo]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') It saw the defeat of the reconstituted [[French]] imperial army of [[Napoléon Bonaparte]] by the British under the [[Arthur Wellesley|Duke of Wellington]] and the [[Prussia]]ns under Marshal [[Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher|Blucher]]. The time-manipulating [[Player]]s tried to subvert this by [[Assassination|assassinating]] the Duke before the battle and then issuing false orders to the Prussian reinforcements. These attempts were thwarted by the [[Second Doctor]] and his companion [[Serena]]. Serena sacrificed herself to take the shot that would have killed the Duke. The Doctor later posed as Napoleon- the two being superficially similar enough for the Doctor to pass himself off as Napoleon to the average French soldier who had never met their Emperor directly but only seen him at a distance- to pass safely through French territory and deliver the message to the Prussians. This defeat marked the end of the [[French Empire]]. Bonaparte was deposed as Emperor for the second time and once again exiled. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') | |||
As part of a plan to conquer Earth, [[Davros]] attempted to alter the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo by providing Napoleon with [[Dalek]] weapons, but when Napoleon learned of Davros' true agenda from the [[Sixth Doctor]], he deliberately allowed himself to lose to save humanity from being conquered by the Daleks. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'') | |||
===Aftermath and legacy=== | |||
"[[Waterloo]]" became a byword for defeats. For example, the [[Fourth Doctor]] told the [[Sontaran]] [[Marshal (The Sontaran Experiment)|Marshal]] that his defeat was "your Waterloo". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]'') | |||
While teaching at [[Farringham School for Boys]] in [[November]] [[1913]], [[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)|John Smith]] gave a lesson on Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. ([[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'') | |||
In a history project for school in [[2009]], [[Clyde Langer]] and [[Luke Smith]] were required to show the battle strategies by Wellington and Napoleon at Waterloo. The pair re-enacted the battle on [[Mr Smith]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]'') | |||
The [[First Doctor]]'s companion [[Vicki Pallister]], a native of the [[25th century]], was unfamiliar with the history of the battle and that of [[Trafalgar Square]]. On a visit to London in [[November]] [[1605]], she expressed an interest in visiting the square. When the Doctor told her that the Battle of Trafalgar would not occur for another 200 years, she assumed that he meant that a battle had been fought in Trafalgar Square in 1805. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Plotters (novel)|The Plotters]]'') | |||
===Alternate timelines=== | |||
In an [[alternate timeline]] where the Players assassinated the Duke of Wellington before the [[Battle of Waterloo]], the French forces won. The [[Countess (Players)|Countess]] convinced Napoleon to continue his plans for the expansion of France regardless of the strain that he put on his men. As a result, the empire which he had created had collapsed by [[1865]]. The countries which he had conquered reverted to smaller kingdoms. They engaged in minor conflicts with each other. This timeline was negated when the Second Doctor learned how the Duke had died. He travelled back to the night of his assassination to avert it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
According to ''[[The Terrestrial Index]]'', a [[Tardis:Valid sources|non-narrative]] source, the Napoleonic Wars may have been exacerbated when the [[Nemesis]] statue passed [[Earth]] in [[1813]]. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Terrestrial Index]]'') | According to ''[[The Terrestrial Index]]'', a [[Tardis:Valid sources|non-narrative]] source, the Napoleonic Wars may have been exacerbated when the [[Nemesis]] statue passed [[Earth]] in [[1813]]. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Terrestrial Index]]'') | ||
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