37o THE EUROPEAN CONVULSION 1803. War with England 1808. Joseph Bonaparte, renewed May King of Spain. 1804. Code Napoleon ^ Spanish rising June issued . . yi arrh Peninsular Warbegihs
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Murder of Due j 1809. Wagram Campaign^ Talavera . . J July r d'Enghien . J Napoleon 1., emperor May 1810. Marriage of Napo- 1805. Third Coalition April leon . . .March Ulm and Trafalgar . Oct. 1811. Battles in the Penin- Austerlitz . ^ Treaty of PresburgJ Dec. sula 1812. Salamanca July 1806. Confederation of The Moscow Cam- Rhine . July paign . . Jul> r -Dec. End of Holy Roman 1813. Battle of Vittoria . June Empire Aug. Battle of Leipzig Oct. Jena Oct. 1814. Napoleon sent to Continental System. Nov. Elba . April 1807. Tilsit July 1815. Return of Napoleon March Stein in Prussia Waterloo Campaign June LEADING NAMES Louis XVI. — Mirabeau — Leopold II. — Francis II. — Frederick William II. — Danton — Robespierre — Carnot— Frederick William III. — Napoleon Bonaparte — Moreau — Nelson — Suvarov — Paul I. — William Pitt— Alexander I.— Joseph Bonaparte— Stein— Wellington — Bliicher. NOTES India. Indian history has now become practically that of the gradual expansion of British ascendency, till the East India Company is recognised as the sovereign of India in place of the Mogul. The process, however, was not one of aggressive conquest. The actual British dominion, under British government, was only a small portion of the Peninsula in 1790. There were sundry native princes, viceroys, and confederacies, each of whom controlled larger territories than the British. Each regarded every other power, but the British most of all, as an aggressive rival in competition for supremacy. Lord Wellesley, Wellington's elder brother, was the only governor-general who sought to acquire territory ; though whenever war was forced on the British, the aggressor inevitably had to cede territory when the war ended. Wellesley's method was, to extend to native states
