Example sentences for: napoleonic

How can you use “napoleonic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The hill was fortified to guard the harbor entrance during the Napoleonic Wars, and you can still see cannon of the Queen’s Battery, installed in 1796.

  • Between 1811 and 1817, during the Napoleonic Wars, Britain took control of Indonesia and seriously thought of staying once the wars were over.

  • Same dart that was aimed at Austen, who penned slight little "parlor room dramas" instead of addressing the Napoleonic Wars!

  • The 1823 conclave of zelanti (zealot) cardinals elected arch-conservative Leo XII to help the papacy recover from its Napoleonic shock.

  • They strike heroic, Napoleonic poses, hand to heart, which made these wafflers and compromisers look ridiculous after the debacle of the Civil War.


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