Scope note The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) involved Napoleon's French Empire and a shifting set of European allies and opposing coalitions. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French ...
The humane and philosophic view of life from which supreme works of art spring will ... in scale between the two wars? For Tolstoy the movement. back and forth of Napoleon’s army is a vast ...
Professor Charles Esdaile, the author of an excellent history of the Peninsular War, has now followed it up with an even better history of the Napoleonic Wars from the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens ...
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THE DYING NELSON and the haughty Wellington loom large in the British perception of the Napoleonic Wars. The mastery achieved by the Royal Navy, the grinding victory in the Peninsular War and the ...
Though Napoleon Bonaparte was often known to prefer simple meals, his last meal was an extravagant breakfast full of ...
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