The hurricane narrative begins by stressing how easily the Indian Ocean disappears from popular accounts of the Napoleonic Wars. The theater mattered to global trade, imperial movement, and the naval contest even when the best-known campaigns occurred elsewhere. This short watch point supplies the geographic frame for the storm account that follows.
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The Napoleonic Wars were also an Indian Ocean conflict
The introduction to Storm and Conquest redirects attention from Europe to the strategically important Indian Ocean theater.