There may have been many spies and intelligence officers during theNapoleonicWars, but it is usually extremely difficult to find the material they actually provided or worked on.
在拿破仑战争时期,可能有许多间谍和情报军官,但是通常极难找到他们实际提供或者工作的材料。
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And it suited Britain and France to have a new, neutral state rather than a source of instability that might, so soon after theNapoleonicwars, set off more turbulence in Europe.
The true gold standard, in which gold coins circulated freely as legal tender, was started in Britain in 1717 and lasted for just under 200 years, interrupted only during theNapoleonicwars.