 The 1601 system was for a pre-industrial society and the massive population increases after the Industrial Revolution strained the existing system.Mechanisation meant that unemployment was increasing, therefore poor relief costs could not be met.The French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars occurred in 1792–1797, 1798–1801, 1805–1807, and 1813–1814, and ended after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.