Inglise keelt kõnelevate maade ajalugu lühikonspekt
moved out of British Cape Colony
Their Great Trek- journey by ox wagon, a sign
of discontent with the English authorities who
had forbidden slave trade and postulated the
equality of whites and blacks.
Two boer republics- Transvaal, the Orange
Free State
The Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts fought
between France under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte
and a number of European nations.
Riflemen, congreve rockets. British army under leadership of
Duke of Wellington
Napoleon decide to invade Russia in 1812, was forced to
retreat due to weather, he was surrounded. He abdicated in
1814.
Napoleon staged a daring return to power and tried to reverse
the outcome of the war at the battle of Waterloo (18 June
1815).
Napoleon exiled to St Helena from where he was never to
return, marking the end of the Napoleonic wars.
Viscount Nelson and Trafalgar 1805