Press reviews

'The Origin of the Guides à cheval', by Roberto A. Scattolin p.1'Why did the battle of Jena take place?', by Peter Hicks p.6'At the Court of Napoleon', by Frank B. Goodrich, 1856, J.B. Lippincott & Co. Philadelphia, 1875, “Caroline Bonaparte at Naples” p. 12'A Lover of Peace, Made the Aggressor', by Ramswamy Mahapatra, p. 15'Stolen […]

Article by Richard Cavendish entitled “Premiere of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, December 23rd, 1806”.“War with France put a damper on social and artistic life in Vienna in the summer of 1806, but winter brought a revival and the first large-scale orchestral concert was given by the violinist Franz Clement, a friend of Beethoven's, leader of the Vienna […]

Charles Stephenson introduces a plan for chemical warfare in the Napoleonic navy, devised by Thomas Cochrane, Lord Dundonald, the model for Patrick O'Brien's Jack Aubrey. Many accounts of the origins of chemical warfare claim that the practice was evolved in antiquity, usually citing references from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Later examples of where the […]

John D. Grainger's The Amiens Truce. Britain and Bonaparte, 1801-1803, reviewed by Philip G. Dwyer, pp. 359-361   French History, Volume 20, Number 3, September 2006

Articles 'In praise of modest men: Self-Display and Self Effacement in nineteenth-century France', by Stephane Gerson, p. 182 Book reviewsLiberalism in nineteenth-century Europe: the political culture of limited suffrage, by Alan S. Kahan, Basingstoke: Palmgrave Macmillan, 2003, p. 239, reviewed by Michael Drolet, Oxford University

Articles'The Nelson Touch: ten lessons in leadership for today', by Jonathan Gosling and Stephanie Jones, p. 149'The Royal College of Surgeons of England', by Michael Crumplin, p. 152'A fatal shot: The death of admiral Horatio Viscount Lord Nelson', by Michael Crumplin and Anthony Harrison, p. 156'Gibraltar's new statue of the hero: John Doubleday and Nelson', […]

Articles'A journey up Death River: death, disease and the British military expedition to Nicaragua 1780', Part I, by Dr Rachel Stone, p. 82'P & O 'Nelson themed' Oriana Cruise', by Nick Slope, p. 91'Inauguration of the Trafalgar Way', by Henry Adams, p. 94'A coda to 2005: the bands of Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar', by Alf […]

History Review, September 2006, Issue 55, p. 38 – 43   Michael Broers argues that the influence of Napoleon's Empire was out of all proportion to its duration.   Napoleon's hegemony over Europe came very close to being comprehensive, yet his ascendancy was brief. Even in France and his earliest conquests in the Low Countries, northern […]

– 'Napoleon's changing way of war', by Michael Bonura, pp. 4-13– 'Under the tricolore: the Dutch Military experience as a French Ally 1792-1813', by Jack Gill, pp. 22-25– 'Can short books do justice to Napoleon', by John McErlean, pp. 26-27

In his amusing article in the New York Times, Adam Goodheart records ten dates which changed history (of the US!). His entry for 19 April is delightfully Napoleonic. “APRIL 19, 1802: Mosquitos Win the West Events that change America don't always occur within our borders. Consider the spring of 1802. Napoleon had sent a formidable army […]