LOWER SIXTH

BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY 1793-1841.

 

Analysis check - The Fourth Coalition War.

The Fourth Coalition War provides useful examples of:
1. British political problems on the domestic front (which must inevitably have affected her ability to puruse an effective war effort and therefore perhaps becomes another reason why the war lasted so long).
Note something about the ‘ministerial instability’:

2. It provides examples of disastrous military defeats on the part of the different coalition forces.
For example (the battle of --------- when -------------------):

3. It also contains what is described as a key mistake made by Napoleon.
This mistake was.......... it was a mistake because ......

Note down other things from the war that you would consider are also interesting and might provide useful material for future essays.