Oh and forgive my pedantry, but in one of the "Pandora's Cornucopia" sections of Existence we're told that the period from Waterloo to the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 was the longest period of peace Europe had ever known.That statement appears to ignore the Crimean War and a bunch of other smaller wars - the Greek War of Independence; the Carlist Wars in Spain and the Revolutions of 1848 which, at a minimum, took on the character of a full-scale conventional war in Hungary and northern Italy. |