MILITARY

(Jen Drexel, Cheryl Keen, and Alyssa Fowler)
 * MILITARY: 1815-1848**

mil•i•tar•y adjective, noun, plural -tar•ies, -tar•y. –adjective 1. of, for, or pertaining to war: military preparedness.


 * THE REVOLT OF LATIN AMERICA-1810**: Latin America was still in the hands of the Portuguese and Spanish. When Napoleon destroyed the Bourbon monarchy in Spain, authority over its colonial empire was weakened. Liberators such as Simón Bolívar and José de San Martin moved from country to country, freeing the people of Spanish control. The last significant Spanish army was defeated in 1824. Britain, eager to gain access to South America for trade, placed their Navy there to stand between and European invading force.


 * BATTLE** **OF WATERLOO-1815**: The Battle of Waterloo occurred on June 18, 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte underwent a huge military defeat in Waterloo. Napoleon’s defeat ended the warfare between France and the other powers of Europe. Napoleon’s troop consisted of 72,000 men was against a combined allied army of 113,000 British, Dutch, Belgian, and Prussian troops. Unfortunately for Napoleon a heavy rain occurred the night before the battle which caused him to delay his attack. This was the cause of his loss.

< picture** France was the first country to have a police force. In 1828 they had serjents keep the streets safe, clean and prevent crime. They were armed with a white cane and a saber.
 * POLICE:

In September of 1829, London had its first police force called the bobbies. They were the first paid police force in England. There was three thousand of them roaming the streets of London. They wore blue tail coats and top hats.

Nicholas I strengthened the secret police during this time. His political police, known as the third section, were given very high powers they deported many dangerous or suspicious people to the tsar.

1839-1842 In 1839 The Chinese government confiscated and destroyed more than 20,000 chests of opium. The British merchants appealed to their government and in 1840, 16 British Warships arrived in Hong Kong and sailed to the mouth of the Pei Ho River. In 1842 the British received reinforcements and they attacked several cities including Shanghai and Nanking. The Treaty of Nanking, concluded the end of the war in 1842. This treaty surrendered Hong Kong to Great Britain and opened several ports to British trade.
 * The Opium War**