 In Europe, the wars with France dragged on for nearly a quarter of a century, 1793–1815.The British organize coalition after coalition, using its superb financial system to subsidize infantry forces, and building up its Navy to maintain control of the seas.Victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) and the Battle of Waterloo (1815) under Admiral Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington brought a sense of triumphalism and political reaction.