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In 1814-15, after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the leaders of the most important countries in Europe gathered together to redraw the frontiers of their continent. In The Congress of Vienna, Tim Chapman explores the attempt by Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia to agree on Europe's new frontiers after almost twenty years of continuous fighting against France. The author traces the survival and evolution of the Vienna settlement through many revolutions and explains its eventual demise with the emergence of modern Europe.