Write in about 200 words how nature intervened in a strange way when Napoleon attacked
Russia or when Hitler attacked during the 2nd World War.
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The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions. It produced a brief period of French domination over most of continental Europe. The wars stemmed from the unresolved disputes associated with the French Revolution and its resultant conflict. The wars are often categorised into five conflicts, each termed after the coalition that fought Napoleon: the Third Coalition (1805), the Fourth (1806–07), the Fifth (1809), the Sixth (1813–14), and the Seventh (1815).
Napoleon, upon ascending to First Consul of France in 1799, had inherited a republic in chaos; he subsequently created a state with stable finances, a strong bureaucracy, and a well-trained army. In 1805, Austria and Russia formed the Third Coalition and waged war against France. In response, Napoleon defeated the allied Russo-Austrian army at Austerlitz in December 1805, which is considered his greatest victory. At sea, the British severely defeated the joint Franco-Spanish navy in the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. This victory secured British control of the seas and prevented the invasion of Britain itself. Concerned about increasing French power, Prussia led the creation of the Fourth Coalition with Russia, Saxony, and Sweden, and the resumption of war in October 1806. Napoleon quickly defeated the Prussians at Jena and the Russians at Friedland, bringing an uneasy peace to the continent. The peace failed, though, as war broke out in 1809, with the badly prepared Fifth Coalition, led by Austria. At first, the Austrians won a stunning victory at Aspern-Essling, but were quickly defeated at Wagram.
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Japan’s attacks in December 1941 weren’t limited to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Within days, Japan attacked Americans in the Philippines and Guam, seized much of the Dutch-held East Indies (Indonesia), conquered British Hong Kong and, by February 1942, decimated British forces at the “impregnable fortress” of Singapore and across Malaya (Malaysia). After what Prime Minister Winston Churchill called the “largest capitulation in British history,” the Royal Navy’s long run as ruler of the world’s seas was over. On December 8th, the day after Pearl Harbor, Japan destroyed America’s undefended airplanes at Clark Air Field and Fort Stotsenburg in the Philippines before they got off the ground. Beleaguered and injured troops retreated to Corregidor Island in Manila Bay with no support to reach them. America’s inter-war strategists had only hoped that, in the event of an attack, their territories in the far western Pacific could hold out on their own as the Navy mustered its fleet in California and Hawaii and focused on protecting the Panama Canal (War Plan Orange).