Publications : 21
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PublicationWar and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era: Sir Charles Stewart, Castlereagh and the Balance of Power in Europe
Publisher’s presentation The lives and careers of Sir Charles Stewart and his brother Lord Castlereagh take in a grand stage, from Britain and Ireland to the kingdoms and empires of western and central Europe. Throughout his life Stewart played a key role in shaping Europe: his is a Regency drama beyond anything imagined by Jane […]
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PublicationThe Long Shadow of Waterloo: Myths, Memories, and Debates
Publisher’s presentation: The Long Shadow of Waterloo explores how Waterloo was remembered by the various nations involved, including the French, British, Germans, the influence it had on these nations (and others, including the USA) and how this changed over the 100 years following the battle. The Battle of Waterloo ended a century of war between […]
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PublicationWellington’s Command: A Reappraisal of His Generalship in the Peninsula and at Waterloo
The Duke of Wellington’s victory at the Battle of Waterloo cemented his reputation as a great general and much subsequent writing on his career has taken an uncritical, sometime chauvinistic view of his talents. Little has been published that fully pins down the reality of Wellington’s leadership, clearly identifying his weaknesses as well as his […]
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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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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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PublicationThe Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World
The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain – an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world. The Regency began on 5 February 1811 when the Prince of Wales replaced his violently insane father George III as the sovereign de facto. It ended on 29 January 1820, when […]
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PublicationFashioning regulation, regulating fashion: the uniforms and dress of the British Army 1800-1815 Volume I
This book is the first part of a two-volume investigation into the clothing orders of the British late Georgian army, combined and contrasted with an analysis of fashion in the same army- comparing the regulated dress with the ‘modes of the army’ as revealed by contemporary writing and illustrations. The first quarter of the nineteenth century witnessed […]
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PublicationTom Wedgwood at Waterloo: The Life of Thomas Josiah Wedgwood who Fought at Waterloo
Thomas Tom Josiah Wedgwood (1797 1860) was the grandson of the English potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood, and the son of John Wedgwood and Louisa Jane (Jenny) Allen. Tom was a professional soldier, gazetted Ensign in the 3rd Foot Guards at the age of sixteen. Less than eighteen months later he was sent to fight […]
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PublicationNapoleon’s Waterloo Army: Uniforms and Equipment
From the publisher: When Napoleon returned to Paris after exile on the Island of Elba, he appealed to the European heads of state to be allowed to rule France in peace. His appeal was rejected and the Emperor of the French knew he would have to fight to keep his throne. In just eight weeks, […]
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PublicationBattle for Paris 1815: The Untold Story of the Fighting after Waterloo
Publisher’s description: On the morning of 3 July 1815, the French General Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans, at the head of a brigade of dragoons, fired the last shots in the defence of Paris until the Franco-Prussian War sixty-five years later. Why did he do so? Traditional stories of 1815 end with Waterloo, that fateful day […]