Elizabeth Patterson
Napoleon and Czar Nicholas II both ruled as totalitarian dictators. Both refused to allow any power, what so ever, to elected representatives.
The Catholic Church, following Our Blessed Lord, has always refused to accept divorce for any valid marriage.
Pope Clement VII
Because the Pope refused to give him a divorce.
Henry the 8th of England asked the Pope to divorce him and his wife and when he refused Henry created a protestant religion where divorce was allowed.
Much of Napoleon's army were untrained and not prepared for battle, plus it didn't help that his generals refused to fight.
She is an agunah because her husband refused to grant her a Jewish divorce.
The Church of England, or Anglican Church
King Henry the Eighth
The Church of England, or Anglican Church
After a vote, the American public refused to join
Napoleon manipulated the Spanish king off the throne, the Peninsular War broke out in 1807. Portugal refused to join the Continental System and Napoleon invaded the small Iberian country, forcing it to comply.