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The Napoleonic Wars: everything you wanted to know

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The End of the Napoleonic Empire

Doubtles: Napoleonic empire began to unravel from there. It took time, and napoleon still had a lot of fight in hind he could still go back and raise more money. But the crucial thing about the unravelling of the empire was that the french relied heavily on recruiting allied forces. By losing this territory, he lost those sources of man power and those sources of taxation. And so that was really, in that sense, the what happened in 18 12 led directly to the final defeat.

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