Britain's wartime method is presented as attacks on enemy possessions around the world's periphery with relatively small forces. British finance could meanwhile support allies who bore the heavier costs of land warfare in Europe. Together, maritime mobility and access to capital put pressure on overseas parts of the French and Spanish empires. Caribbean conquests therefore formed part of Britain's wider Napoleonic strategy.
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Britain's peripheral strategy in the Napoleonic Wars
Britain's wartime method used small forces against overseas possessions while British finance supported allies bearing much of the land war in Europe.