Napoleonic Wars: Difference between revisions

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]]'')

[[File:Napoleon.jpg|thumb|Napoleon. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror (TV story)|The Reign of Terror]]'')]]

Napoleon was born Napoleone Buona Parte in the [[year]] [[1769]], just [[month]]s apart from his future [[enemy]], [[Arthur Wellesley]]. A native of [[Corsica]], a small [[island]] that was an often-rebellious province of [[France]], Napoleon's [[parent]]s were [[aristocrat]]s, part of the Corsican nobility and rulers of the island on behalf of the French. Their [[family]] name was originally [[Buona Parte]]. In later years it was "Frenchified", and Napoleone Buona

Parte became Napoleon Bonaparte. Like Wellesley, Napoleon attended a [[military academy]] in France, though not the same one, and both became [[soldier]]s, both rising in their chosen profession. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'')

{{main|Battle of Trafalgar}}

[[File:HMSTARDIS.jpg|thumb|right|[[Horatio Nelson]]'s death. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[H.M.S. TARDIS (short story)|H.M.S. TARDIS]]'')]]

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]]'')

{{main|Peninsular War}}

The Peninsular War was fought between the French and the British across [[Portugal]] and [[Spain]]. During this [[war]], six of Napoleon's [[marshal]]s, comprising the majority of them, were defeated by [[Arthur Wellesley]] one after another, battle after battle, victory after victory. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') It was one of the [[Earth]] conflicts from which the [[War Lord]]s took combatants for their [[War Game]]. It was given its own zone. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')

Major General [[Robert Ross (Washington Burns)|Robert Ross]] was a veteran of the Peninsular War. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Washington Burns (audio story)|Washington Burns]]'')

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]]'')

In [[1814]], Napoleon was [[exile]]d. Meanwhile, in [[Britain]], [[Arthur Wellesley]] was made [[Duke of Wellington]]. Ultimately, Napoleon returned from exile [[1815|the following year]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)|The Doctor and the Nurse]]'')

{{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]]'')

Following his defeat, Napoleon died in his early fifties, a bitter and lonely exile. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'')

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]]'')

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 ==

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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