Publications : 22
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PublicationFrench and American Prisoners of War at Dartmoor Prison, 1805-1816. The strangest experiment
This remarkable book turns the spotlight on an strangely un-illuminated part of the Napoleonic Wars, namely Prisoner of War incarceration, whether in Prison or in Hulks, focussing particularly on the specially constructed POW prison on Dartmoor (UK). Two juxtaposed statistics illustrate graphically why this book is welcome – there were between 130,000 and 150,000 French […]
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PublicationTo Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII
In the wake of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the church with the state. But while they were able to work together initially, formalizing an agreement in 1801, relations between them rapidly deteriorated. In 1809, Napoleon ordered the Pope’s arrest. Ambrogio […]
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PublicationWellington and the Vitoria Campaign 1813. Never a finer armyFirst came the news of the French defeat in Russia in January 1813. Then six months later, Europe learned of the French rout at Vitoria. European commentators felt that Napoleon’s days were numbered. The aspiring German composer Ludwig van Beethoven was so inspired by Wellington’s…
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PublicationArenenberg. Königin Hortense, Napoléon und Kaiserin Eugénie: Ein Familiensitz Arenenberg(French-German edition) Title in French: Arenenberg. La reine Hortense, Napoléon III et l’impératrice Eugénie : une maison de famille Christine Egli, Deputy Director of the Napoleon Museum in Thurgau, offers us a bilingual French-German version of the history of the imperial estate of Arenenberg (now the…
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PublicationLa dernière passion de Napoléon. La bibliothèque de Sainte-Hélène [Napoleon’s last Passion: the St Helena Library]Book in French In his book La dernière passion de Napoléon [Napoleon’s passion for books], Jacques Jourquin presents us with the details of a long investigation aimed at reconstituting the contents of the library at Longwood House during Napoleon’s exile on the island of St Helena.…
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PublicationNapoleone 1821. La morte di Bonaparte: scenari, reazioni, conseguenze nel ducato di parmaBook in Italian. (Title in English: Bonaparte’s death: scenarios, reactions, consequences in the Duchy of Parma) This book is a collection of essays to accompany the exhibition at the Museo Glauco Lombardi on the occasion of the bicentenary of Napoleon’s death, part of the 2021 Année…
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PublicationWaterloo Witnesses: Military and Civilian Accounts of the 1815 Campaign
Publisher’s presentation: The events of Sunday, 18 June, stand as the defining moment of the year 1815, if not of an entire era. The allied victory over Napoleon’s French army at the Battle of Waterloo reshaped governments and boundaries, made or broke fortunes and touched thousands of lives in ways both large and small, and […]
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PublicationAustrian Cavalry of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815
Austria was one of the five major players of the Napoleonic Wars. In early 19th century, the Austrian army (Kaiserliche-Königliche Heer) was the third largest and one of the best-trained armies in the world.The individual regiments performed well and were considered solid. However, hampered by the inherent conservatism of the hierarchy, the Austrians had to […]
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PublicationNapoleonic Governance in the Netherlands and Northwest Germany: Conquest, Incorporation, and IntegrationThis book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Also available as a hardback. Explores the ways in which French Emperor Napoleon tried to integrate the present-day Netherlands and Northwest Germany into his Empire Shows that a transregional approach…
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PublicationThe Danish Army of the Napoleonic Wars 1801-1814, Organisation, Uniforms and Equipment: Volume 2: Cavalry and ArtilleryThis is the second of 3 volumes about The Danish Army of the Napoleonic Wars 1801-1814. Volume 1 Volume 3 will be published in autumn 2021