Press reviews

  Amanda Foreman, “The British View the War of 1812 Quite Differently Than Americans Do,” in Smithsonian Magazine (July 2014).   “…For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of […]

  William Cook, “How Napoleon won at Waterloo”, in The Spectator (online edition, 5th July 2014).   “…Naturally, in France Napoleon is still revered. Had Britain produced such a military maestro, we'd probably forgive his many flaws. It's elsewhere in the eurozone that his veneration is so intriguing. These were countries that he conquered, at the cost of […]

In commemoration of the fall of the First Napoleonic Empire two hundred years ago, L'Histoire, a leading French historical periodical, has collaborated with the Fondation Napoléon to produce a special edition, dedicated to the period from Napoleon's first abdication until his exile to the island of Saint Helena.  Articles include:1. Faux départ (mars 1814-mars 1815)– […]

 Gordon Corrigan's Waterloo: A New History of the Battle and its Armies,  reviewed by David Crane, in The Spectator (online edition).   “… This is a soldier's book, and an old soldier's book at that — Corrigan retired from the army in 1998 — and if that will come with a mild government health warning for […]

“Guerra de guerillas en Cataluña: Cazadores de montaña al servicio de Napoleón,” by Francesc Garcia, in Revista Digital de Historia Militar. “La guerra de guerrillas en España entre los años 1808 y 1813 fue un fenómeno complejo. Para empezar, el periodo de la guerra contra Napoleón es insuficiente puesto que la experiencia previa de la guerra […]

“Las cuatro esposas de Fernando VII,” La Aventura de la Historia.   “…Hasta casi el final, Fernando VII vivió con la incertidumbre de morir sin descendencia. Cuatro princesas se sucedieron en su lecho, de las cuales tres murieron prematuramente. La cuarta, María Cristina de Borbón, con la que se casó hace ciento ochenta años, dio […]

 The Napoleonic Historical Society NewsletterMay-June 2014  Contents 1 – Remembering Josephine 2 – Josephine at the Luxembourg 7 – Munich likes Kobell 10 – Treasures in Montreal 12 – Balcombe Theft14 – Advertisement for Tour of Regency Britain 15 – Bones in Portchester 16 – Four Austrians 19 – Napoleon the Great? A London Debate20 […]

2014 Anniversary of the “Route Napoléon”, from the French Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa:       “…Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte (1856-1879), only son of Napoléon III and Empress Eugénie, came to South Africa in March 1879 with the British reinforcements sent following the Isandlwana disaster during the Anglo-Zulu war. After spending a […]

“The Emperor Maximilian arrives in Mexico City,” by Richard Cavendish, in History Today, Vol. 64, Issue 6 (June 2014), pp. 8-9 “…In an alliance Napoleon organised in 1861, troops from Britain, Spain and France landed at Veracruz in Mexico to demand payment of the government's debts, but when the British and the Spanish realised that the […]

“Sebastopol Besieged,” by Hugh Small, in History Today, Vol. 64, Issue 4 (April 2014), pp. 20-21     “The Crimean War (1854-56) was a disappointment to the British because peace broke out just when, with their French, Turkish and Italian allies, they seemed to be gaining the upper hand over Russia. For more than a century […]