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ArticleBook review: The Art of War
Baron Antoine Henri De Jomini's classic The Art of War was translated into English twice at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.. The best-known translation, by Captain G. H. Mendell and Lieutenant W. P. Graihill in 1862, was edited by J. B Lippincot and Company in Philadelphia, but the most complete edition was […]
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ArticleBook review: The War That Changed the World
John Allen-Price, an independent historian from New York who wrote the introduction to the latest edition of Jomini's The Art of War, starts The War That Changed the World with an explanation of the Franco-Prussian War's historic importance and why it seems to have vanished from popular memory. One reason for its virtual disappearance from […]
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ArticleSpeech at inauguration of the Monument to commemorate the British landing on 29th November 1810, at Bain Boeuf, Mauritius
Introduction Thursday 2nd December 2010In the presence of HRH Princess Anne The speech Your Royal Highness,President of the Republic,Distinguished Guests, We are at the place where two hundred years ago, some 12,000 British and Indian soldiers and sailors landed, to fight the French and attempt to capture the Ile de France. This is certainly a great […]
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ArticleThe Fondation Napoléon History Prize and Research Grant Awards Ceremony 2010
The ceremony This year, the awards ceremony for the Fondation Napoléon History Prizes and Research Grants took place on Tuesday 7 December, at the Grande Chancellerie of the Légion d'honneur in Paris. The awards were presented by HIH the Princess Napoleon and the Prince d'Essling, president of the Fondation Napoléon. Every year, an independent jury composed […]
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ArticleChristmas and New Year selection 2010-2011
Christmas and New Year Selection 2010-2011: an introduction The festive season is upon us once again, and as is our wont around this time, we have put together a list of the recent Napoleonic releases from the book and digital media world. Whether you use the advice in our Christmas and New Year Selection 2010-2011 for […]
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ArticleLouis Napoleon, the political exile in England, part one: 1830-1838
Out of his sixty-five years on this planet, Louis Napoleon, future-Napoleon III, spent only twenty-eight of them in France. The rest of his life was spent in exile, whether in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, England or (exceedingly briefly) the United States. It is his stay in, and relationship with, Britain which I propose to discuss here, […]
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ArticleCaesarism after thirteen yearsThe Englishman Walter Bagehot, a journalist, political commentator and economist, was at the height of his career considered “the Greatest Victorian”. Whilst on holiday in Paris in December 1851, he was witness to Louis-Napoleon’s coup d’état: this was to be the start of his admiration…
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ArticleVolume seven of the General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte: an introduction
“[…] Officers on the General Staff, [our] colonels and officers have not removed their clothes for over two months; for some of them it has been four (even I went a fortnight without removing my boots), in the middle of all this snow and mud, with no bread, no wine, no eau-de-vie, living on potatoes […]
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ArticleThe General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 7: halfway there…
A year and a bit after the release of volume six, volume seven of the General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte is finally out. Edited by Michel Kerautret and Gabriel Madec, this new opus bears the title Tilsit, the Empire's apogee and includes 3,020 letters, written over the course of just one year: 1807. Originally intended […]
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ArticleGeneral Baron Gaspard Gourgaud: A Survivor of St HelenaDedicated to the memory of Napoleon Gourgaud du Taillis who passed away on 8 August, 2010.