Napoleonic Wars War of 1808–1814, assisted by Spanish guerrilla ('little war') tactics. Anglo-Portuguese forces under Arthur Wellesley supported the Spanish, which campaigned successfully against the French armies, eventually driving them from Spain and allowing Britain to invade southern France. By 1815, the British Army played the central role in the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Beyond minor naval actions against British imperial interests, the Napoleonic Wars were much less global in scope than preceding conflicts such as the Seven Years' War, which historians term a "world war". In response to the naval blockade of the French coasts enacted by the British
Battle of Jobourg was one final naval engagement of the long Napoleonic Wars during the Hundred Days in 1815, when the ship of the line HMS "Rivoli" intercepted and defeated the Napoleonic frigate "Melpomène" on 30 April. "Hebrus"'s battle with "Etoile" was however the final encounter of dozens between individual frigates in the almost continuous 23-years of warfare between Britain and France. Battle of Jobourg The Battle of Jobourg was a minor naval engagement between British and French frigate squadrons during the last weeks of the War of the Sixth Coalition in the 22nd and penultimate year of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic