Assertion: napoleon's war | /r/HasProperty | expensive
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text: Napoleon after 1799 paid for his expensive wars by multiple means, starting with the modernization of the rickety financial system.
text: The wars were so expensive, and so inconclusive, that although France gained some territory to the east, its enemies gained more strength than it did, Vauban, France's leading military strategist, warned the King in 1689 that a hostile "Alliance" was too powerful at sea.