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A memorable history of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 good things, 5 bad kings and 2 genuine dates Credits: Carla Foust and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https: //www. pgdp. net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

CHAPTER XLVI

NAPOLEON

The English were disgusted by this new French Convention and so decided to go in for The War again, thus causing Nelson and the Duke of Wellington. The War was now called the Napoleonic War, after Napoleon, a Corsican, whose real name was Bonuapart, and who had cleverly made himself First Consort by means of a whiff of grape-nuts. (This is called the Napoleonic Legend.)

The French Revolution caused great loss of life, liberty, fraternity, etc., and was, of course, a Good Thing, since the French were rather degenerate at the time; but Napoleon now invented a new Convention that the French should massacre all the other nations and become top nation, and this, though quite generate, was a Bad Thing.