Publications : 64
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PublicationEvangelicals in the Royal Navy 1775-1815
From the publishers:The evangelical Admiral Gambier, notorious for distributing tracts to his fleet in a theatre of war, is commonly seen as a misfit in a fighting service that had scant time for fervent piety. In fact, the navy of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars showed a level of religious observance not seen since the […]
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PublicationFace à la Révolution et l’Empire: caricatures anglaises (1789-1815) (in French)
From the publishers:In Britain, the French Revolution and the First Empire gave rise to an impressive production of images and iconography, and in particular satirical engravings. From the middle of the 18th century, caricature became a popular part of English daily life, maintained throughout the period thanks to several important artists, including James Gillray, Thomas […]
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PublicationSoldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1820
From the publishers:The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars have been described as the first 'total war', which affected millions of people's lives and brought a whole continent into contact with armies and bloodshed. But the extent to which the constant state of war that existed between 1792 and 1815 shaped everyday experience has been much less […]
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PublicationJournal de campagne 1806-1813 (in French)
From the publishers:Originally from Perche and cousin of the Empress Josephine, Maurice de Tascher started at l'Ecole de Fontainebleau in 1804. At the age of 20, he received a baptism of fire at Jena, where he was injured. He subsequently fought at Heilsberg, Baylen, Wagram, Borodino, Berezina. De Tascher died from exhaustion in 1813. Throughout […]
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PublicationNapoleon III. in seiner Zeit. Teil II: Das Verhängnis (in German)
Napoleon III in his epoch – part II: the downfallFrom the publishers:“Napoleon III., according to the historian Heinrich von Sybel, lived in silence and died in silence, and still today he is seen as mysterious figure. Posterity looks at him through the distorting mirror of the defeat at Sedan, and in his homeland, the last […]
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PublicationAdmiral Saumarez Versus Napoleon – The Baltic, 1807-12
From the publishers:The maritime war against Napoleon did not end with the Battle of Trafalgar, but continued right up to 1815, with even more British ships and sailors deployed after 1805 than before. One key theatre was the Baltic, where the British commander was Admiral Saumarez. He had had a highly successful career as a […]
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PublicationPeninsular Eyewitnesses: The Experience of War in Spain and Portugal 1808-1813
Napoleon's vain act of placing his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne in 1808 cost him an ally as the Spanish populace rose against their French-installed monarch. That in turn led to two invasions of the Iberian Peninsula that would ultimately cost the French army a total of 500,000 casualties—and that brought an Anglo-Portuguese […]
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PublicationReclutamento e guerra nell’Italia napoleonica (in Italian)
From the publishers:Italians military contribution began immediately after the first French occupation of Lombardy (1796) and the creation of the Cisalpine Republic whit the constitution of the Lombard Legion. This Legion went on growing bigger until reaching in 1797 a total force of 15.000 men. With the constitution of 1802 the Cisalpine Republic got […]
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PublicationLes Italiens dans l’armée française: Recrutement et incorporation (1796-1814) (in French)
From the publishers: Francesco Frasca offers a work discussing the relationship between the French and the Italians, particularly with regards to Italian recrutement and participation in the French army. The political, institutional, sociological and psychological aspects of the history are all considered: the Italians made a remarkable contribution, militarily speaking, to the wars that […]
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PublicationCoup d’état à l’Elysée (in French)
The Coup d'Etat on 2 December 1851 greatly divided the French people. After more than 150 years, the time has come to put aside partisan perspectives and, through the sources and eye-witnesses, uncover the real historical truth of the event. Here the coup d'Etat is described hour by hour, indeed minute by minute. Alain Decaux […]