Napoleon's first defeat in his attempt to take over europe was the peninsula war. the battle of waterloo. the battle of trafalgar. the battle of moscow.

The naval battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain was Napolean's first military defeat. The English navy commanded by Lord Nelson defeated the French and Spanish fleets. This battle gave England control of the seas and garunteed that the French could not invade England. The battle was fought in October 1805.

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in the 1800s, locomotives powered by steam made transportation faster and cheaper. the resulting rapid growth of railroads led to the connection of the atlantic and pacific railroad in oklahoma city in 1897.

in the last years of the century, the improvement of steam-based engines the expansion and growth of railroads. this growth increased when the companies started to build and expand, such as the atlantic and pacific railroad, which connected new mexico with california, and missouri with oklahoma. many of these new networks were built in oklahoma, and these changes transportation henceforward.