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THIS MONTH'S BOOK
Wellington's smallest victory: the Duke, the model maker and the secret of Waterloo, by Peter Hofschröer
As every schoolboy knows, Wellington won at Waterloo because the Prussians arrived in the afternoon, putting pressure on Napoleon's flank and bringing much-needed respite to the tiring allied forces under Wellington's command. And yet in his Waterloo Dispatch, Wellington seems to present himself as alone responsible for the total victory and was apparently less than scrupulous in encouraging that opinion. Peter Hofschröer untangles the story in this extraordinary piece of research.
VIRUS, SPAM AND... NAPOLEON
On Wednesday 31 March your antivirus software probably intercepted an email purporting to be the Fondation Napoléon newsletter, but with an attachment - which worse still, with a virus. As you know, the newsletter is never sent out as an email with an attachment! It appears that the address of the newsletter was hijacked and reused by someone else. We did not send out a newsletter on Wednesday 31. And to reiterate, we never send the newsletter as an attachment. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused, which as I sure you realise, is entirely beyond our control.
Please contact us if you have an questions and we thank your for your continuing interest in our activities.
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO
On 16 Germinal, An XII (6 April, 1804), Jean-Charles Pichegru was found dead in his cell. A verdict of suicide did not satisfy Bonaparte's opponents, indeed they suspected the First Consul, or some of his supporters perhaps acting alone. Pichegru had been arrested on 26 February for his part in a conspiracy against the First Consul.
Born in 1761 near Arbois in the Jura, Pichegru had been a teacher before becoming a soldier: he particpated in the occupation Holland during the winter of 1794-95, the repression of the 'sans-culottes' uprising against the Convention in Paris 1 April, 1795, and Commander in chief of the Armée du Rhin et Moselle.
Wishing you an excellent, Napoleonic, week!
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
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THIS WEEK:
Press Review
The Gazette: the Member's Journal of The Napoleonic Alliance, vol. 2003, no. 4
Just published
- 1812, Napoleon's fatal march on Moscow, by Adam Zamoyski
- The Private Journal of Judge-Advocate Larpent: Attached to the Head-Quarters of Lord Wellington during the Peninsular War from 1812 to its close, ed. Ian C. Robertson
- Napoleon as Military Commander, by James Marshall-Cornwall
- For God and Glory: Lord Nelson and his way of war, by Joel S. A. Hayward
What's on
- Commemoration/Day: Napoleon and the city of Graz
- Exhibition: Napoleon in Coblenz
- Workshop: University courses in Jena 1800
- Exhibition: The Albums of Napoleon III
- Commemoration: 9th annual commemorative ceremony for the anniversary of the death of the Prince Imperial
- Exhibition: Napoleon and the sea, a dream of Empire, Paris
- Exhibition: Napoleon and the Jouy Cloth
The monthly titles
- Wellington's smallest victory: the Duke, the model maker and the secret of Waterloo, by Peter Hofschröer
- This month's painting: The destruction of l'Orient during the Battle of the Nile (Aboukir), by Georges Arnald
- This month's article: Saint Helena Miscellany, by Thierry Lentz and Peter Hicks
- In the Collectors Corner, Bust of Napoleon I by Jean-Antoine Houdon
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