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Presentation Event in French Logistics are essential to the waging of war. This concept, which emerged during the imperial period, encompasses all the transport and supply activities required for military operations, at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Despite its central importance, it is a subject that has often been neglected by imperial military history, which […]

Conference: Boiseries: Decoration and Migration from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Thursday 12th & Friday 13th January 2023 at Camden Place (last home of Napoleon III), Chislehurst (Kent), UK This two-day conference investigates the cultural and commercial migrations of French eighteenth-century boiseries from their places of production in Paris and the Bâtiments du Roi […]

Saturday 10th September 10:15 Dr Martin Howard: Wellington and the British Army’s Indian Campaigns 1798 – 1805. 11:15 Dr Mark Thompson: The controversial Allied siege of San Sebastián in 1813. Lunch 1:30 Dr Mark Sadler: The King’s Bold Hussars and the Battle of Sahagun. 2:30 Paul Chamberlain: Notorious Correspondence – General Edouard Simon and the […]

Festival presentation “The last love, an English witness who sheds new light on Napoleon on St Helena and the cinema on the Napoleonic epic” (“L’ultimo amore, un testimone inglese che getta nuova luce su Napoleone a Sant’Elena e il cinema sull’epica napoleonica) will be the theme of the “Tre serate con Napoleone” 2022. These events […]

Throughout her life, Rosa Bonheur kept almost all of her sketches, thus constituting a kind of “database”. These private creations – drawings, oils, watercolours, pastels, caricatures, comic strips – were sometimes notes that she took at random from her travels, sometimes preparatory studies for a particular painting, or even illustrations of great myths. She always […]

  event webpage Hole Park Benenden Road, Rolvenden, Kent, UK TN17 4JA Contact: Edward Barham Tel: 01580 241 344 Mob: 07976 241794 Email: info@holepark.com Email: events@holepark.com Admission Prices Adults £9.00 Children £1 (5 – 16 years)

Entitled “Napoléon et Bertrand, le retour des héros” [“Napoleon and Bertrand, the return of the heroes”], this retrospective will bring together the emblematic works of the two men, from their stay on St Helena between 1815 and 1821, until the Return of Napoleon’s Mortal Remains (“Retour des Cendres”) in 1840. Paintings, prints and engravings, furniture, […]

Presentation The Chaire Napoléon continues its exploration of the circumstances and political consequences of Napoleon’s death in a series of study mornings. After the death itself and its contemporary echo (2018), the formation of the libero-bonapartist idea (2019), this third rendez-vous explores the Bonapartist ideas and facts. Programme 09:30 – Welcome 09:50 – The “Memorial”: […]

As well as the reenactment, there will be a themed market near the Battle’s Interpretation Centre at Vimeiro, so visitors can fully immerse themselves in the social and military environment of the early 19th-century French Invasions. Actors will play civilians and soldiers to bring the atmosphere of the battle to life. There will be street […]