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Persia's role and in the article and on the map[edit]
Persia was firmly allied to France for several years following the Finkenstein treaty, and France was allied to Russia in the other years of the Napoleonic wars. Military diplomacy as part of the Napoleonic Wars subsequently commenced during the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813) It would be nice if Qajar Persia's role, albeit minor, could be covered somewhere in the article as well as they largely led the front in the North and South Caucasus.
Also this map needs to be adjusted. If someone could do that.
"Despite the Treaty of Finckenstein, France failed to win a diplomatic war around Persia and none of the terms of the treaty were realized. On 12 March 1809, the United Kingdom signed a treaty with Persia forcing the French out of that country."
Can we please keep the separation between the two lede pictures? It just looks dumb and confusing to have them run together. --A D Monroe III (talk) 20:16, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
At an earlier stage this article was written in British English spelling. It now seems to be in American English, yet I cannot see where a discussion took place here in talk about it. Any idea what happened? --John (talk) 19:15, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
Never mind, I took care of it. --John (talk) 22:53, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
Normally something like this would not be an issue if it were reinforced with sources, but due to the complexity of this topic, I felt it best to garner a broad consensus first. I think the result box in the infobox is both too cluttered, and giving too little information on the actual result of the war, when compared to others, such as the Thirty Years War, the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War. I realise the Napoleonic Wars was "technically" an agglomeration of separate conflicts, but most historians, scholars, and the public, refer to the Napoleonic Wars as one conflict. The more comprehensive results of each individual conflict can, after all, be read up on by navigating to each coalition war, whereas I believe the result of the Napoleonic Wars infobox overall, should give a more comprehensive summary of the results of the wars overall, rather than listing the result of each individual coalition. Therefore, I propose the result box to read the following, as derived from the "political effects" section of the Napoleonic Wars page:
Following this revert [1], I have edited the War of 1812 accordingly [2]. Blaue Max (talk) 18:48, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
This has been discussed in detail before. The result was the decision that the War of 1812 was related to but not directly of the Napoleonic Wars and therefor not included in this article in as much as the info box is concerned.Tirronan (talk) 19:18, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
I have no definite opinion as to the relation of the War of 1812 with the Napoleonic Wars, but I found it strange that they ~were related in teh Napoleonic Wars article, but not in the War of 1812 article.Blaue Max (talk) 20:09, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
I'm in about the same boat, don't really care one way or the other but if you go back far enough I'm sure the arguments will be there.Tirronan (talk) 21:37, 26 December 2016 (UTC)