SNC020-C
Consignment
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Del Prado SNC020 Officer, 5th Hussars, Kellerman's Division, 1805
Following the coup of 1799 Bonaparte became First Consul of France, a title confirmed for life in 1802. The monarchs of the old European order looked on suspiciously as this soldier-statesman began work to bring stability back to France.
Inevitably the peace was short lived. Fourteen months after Britain and France signed the Peace of Amiens, with relations between the two countries rapidly deteriorating, France placed an embargo on British shipping in French ports, to which Britain responded by declaring war and agitating in Europe against Bonaparte and his territorial ambitions. Meanwhile, Bonaparte ordered a vast concentration of the army along the English Channel coastline as he planned to rid himself of what he saw as the constant treachery of Britain. In response, Britain called out the militia and strengthened her navy.