War of 1812 Vienna, during which British diplomats had clashed with Russian and Prussian diplomats over the terms of the peace with France, and there were fears at the Britain might have go to war with Russia and Prussia. Now each side was tired of the war. Export trade was all but paralyzed and after Napoleon fell in 1814 France was no longer an enemy of Britain, so the Royal Navy no longer needed to stop American shipments to France, and it no longer needed to impress more seamen. It had ended the practices that so angered the Americans in 1812. The British
Tolstoy Cup with a newer copy. It has since been superseded by a conventional trophy. Tolstoy Cup The Tolstoy Cup is an annual football match played between the students of the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford and the Department of War Studies at King's College London since 2007, though the match was first played in 1994. The competition is named after "War and Peace", the 1869 novel written by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The rivalry between 'Peace Studies' and 'War Studies' is one of the great sporting rivalries, being featured at number four on the "Financial Times"