ok, ok, I meant to say the 18th century and I sometimes mix up the way of saying centuries in English since you have to remember to go one up on the century you actually mean. I guess I was off by a few years because I thought this war was in the late 17 hundreds, not 1809. War history is not my forte, so perhaps I should not have bothered with that comment.
But again, that was an observation in response to someones elses comment, and it is not the topic of this discussion!