The Amiens Truce: Britain and Bonaparte 1801 - 1803

A study of the hardening of British public opinion against Bonaparte and an examination of the events that caused it. In 1801 Britain and Bonaparte made an armistice, which became the Treaty of Amiens in March 1802. In the brief period of peace which followed, British attitudes underwent a major change, so that when war began again in May 1803 there was little or no dissent from the view that the war had to be fought to a finish and Bonaparte's power destroyed. This was partly the result of Bona