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from 18/02/2021 to 31/12/2021TalkThe British Witnesses to Napoleon | Napoleon 200
The death of Napoleon in far off St Helena in May 1821 brought to a crescendo twenty-five years of English-language publishing on the Emperor. Thousands of pages, including the Emperor’s will, Barry O’Meara’s Napoleon in Exile, and Emmanuel de Las Cases’ “Journal of Private Life and Conversations of Napoleon” (known in French as the “Memorial”) […]
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from 01/09/2020 to 15/08/2021ExhibitionThe headquarters of Wellington and Napoleon and the farms of the Battle of Waterloo
Waterloo Battlefield is one of the best preserved battlefields in the world. Since 1914, the site is protected and has therefore changed little since the fighting of 1815. All new construction is prohibited and, with the exception of the excavation of land due to the erection of the Lion’s Mound, the topography of the site […]