Britain had been at war with France for a century and was on the brink of losing the Napoleonic Wars, when Barbauld presented her readers with her shocking Juvenalian satire; wherein she argued that the British empire was waning and the American empire was waxing.
Britain had been at war with France for a decade and was on the brink of losing the Napoleonic Wars, when Barbauld presented her readers with her shocking Juvenalian satire. 
