Publications : 1272
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PublicationNapoleon’s Peninsular War: The French Experience of the War in Spain from Vimeiro to Corunna, 1808–1809
Publisher’s presentation: Memoirs of British soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War are commonplace and histories of the momentous campaigns and battles of Sir John Moore and Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, can be numbered by the score. Yet surprisingly little has been published in English on their opponents, the French. Using […]
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PublicationWalking Waterloo: A guide
Publisher’s presentation: Charles Esdaile’s new guide to the Battle of Waterloo presents the experience of the soldiers who took part in the battle in the most graphic and direct way possible – through their own words. In a series of walks he describes in vivid detail what happened in each location on 18 June 1815 […]
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PublicationBritain, Portugal and South America in the Napoleonic Wars: Alliances and Diplomacy in Economic Maritime Conflict
Publisher’s presentation: In the maelstrom of Napoleonic Europe, Britain remained defiant, resisting French imperial ambitions. This Anglo-French rivalry was a politico-economic conflict for preeminence fought on a global scale and it reached a zenith in 1806-1808 with France’s apparent dominance of Continental Europe. Britain reacted swiftly and decisively to implement maritime-based strategies to limit French […]
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PublicationNapoleon and de Gaulle: Heroes and History
One of France’s most famous historians compares two exemplars of political and military leadership to make the unfashionable case that individuals, for better and worse, matter in history. Historians have taught us that the past is not just a tale of heroes and wars. The anonymous millions matter and are active agents of change. But […]
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PublicationBlack Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Publisher’s presentation: The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world’s first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former slave, became the leader of the colony’s […]
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PublicationNapoléon. Dictionnaire historique [Napoleon: a historical dictionary][In French]
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PublicationMemorias del Emperador Napoleón: Durante los primeros tres años de su cautiverio en la isla de Santa Elena, Incluyendo el tiempo de residencia en la casa de su padre, “Los Briars”[Spanish translation of the Memoirs of Betsy Balcombe]
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PublicationThey Fought With Extraordinary Bravery: The III German (Saxon) Army Corps in the Southern Netherlands, 1814
In October 1813, the soldiers of one of Napoleon’s staunchest Allies, Saxony, defected en masse in the midst of battle at Leipzig. Almost immediately III German Army Corps was formed with these same soldiers as its nucleus and augmented with returning former prisoners of war, volunteers and militia. Commanded by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar the […]
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PublicationOur Friends the Enemies The Occupation of France after Napoleon
The Napoleonic wars did not end with Waterloo. That famous battle was just the beginning of a long, complex transition to peace. After a massive invasion of France by more than a million soldiers from across Europe, the Allied powers insisted on a long-term occupation of the country to guarantee that the defeated nation rebuild […]
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PublicationI soldati del Dipartimento di Montenotte (1805-1814)
Con la “riunione” della Liguria all’Impero Francese, votata dal Senato Ligure il 25 maggio 1805, vennero creati tre nuovi dipartimenti: Genova, Montenotte ed Appennini. Al Dipartimento di Montenotte vennero aggregati i circondari di Ceva, del Dipartimento della Stura, e di Acqui, del soppresso Dipartimento del Tanaro, e nel contempo il circondario di San Remo venne […]