Peace of Amiens
March 25, 1802
For fourteen strange months, Britain and France stopped trying to kill each other. Tourists crossed the Channel; Fox dined with Bonaparte. Neither side believed it would hold, and neither side meant it to. The peace was a breath drawn before a war that would run, on and off, for another decade.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.