Press reviews

On the bicentenary of the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, here is an article by Jon Kelly (BBC) about lone gunmen.

“The year 1812. An epoch in sound“

“Special Forces of the 1812 war“

The May 2012 issue of History Today (UK) features a short text on the assassination of Spencer Perceval (in Months Past), as well as an article on the Luddite disturbances of 1812.   Click here for the text on Spencer Perceval's assassination (by Richard Cavendish) and here for the article by Richard Jones on the […]

The Guardian website (UK) features Phoebe Smith's travel article on visiting the island of Corsica. Smith takes a hiker's approach to the visit, and mentions a number of different sights and routes, including the Napoleon Trail.   Click here for the article (external link) and here for the Fondation Napoléon's own walking Corsica file.

The Scotsman online (UK) reports on the sale of a broach which once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte's sister, Caroline. The broach, which went under the hammer at Bonham's Fine Jewellery sale in London in April, finally sold for more than £50,000.   Click here for the article (external link).

Paradox Interactive, developers of Mount & Blade: Warband, have released new DLC (downloadable content) for the game. The new update allows the gamer to experience real-time combat in a Napoleonic wars setting, with the option to fight as any one of the five powers of the period and use over two hundred and twenty military […]

The Gibraltar Chronicle online (BOT) has posted an article on the planned memorial for a soldier who died two hundred years ago whilst participating in the Peninsular campaign. The article notes that Lieutenant Colonel John Scrope Colquitt died of fever on 4 September 1812 in the Seville vicinity. The monument, which cost about 10,000 Euros […]

An augmented reality iPhone walking tour for the “Le Palais-Royal” has been published. Produced by Diana Haig, author of Walks through Napoleon and Josephine's Paris and Walks through Marie Antoinette's Paris, the iPhone app provides historical anecdotes and quotations from Diderot, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, Napoleon Bonaparte, Colette, and Truman Capote and guides visitors around […]

Despite Alan Forrest's best efforts, the attendees present for the National Army Museum's speaker day on 14 April voted for George Washington, who was declared Britain's Greatest Enemy Commander. Napoleon, whose case was presented by Alan, came in third with twelve votes (out of a possible sixty-seven).   Listen to excerpts from each presentation, including […]