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ArticleThe Chinese expedition: Chinese Gordon and the burning of the Summer Palace
The Tai-Ping Rebellion “In the middle of July, 1860, he left home for China, traveling by Paris and Marseilles, and visiting Malta, Alexandria, Aden, Ceylon, Singapore, and Hong-Kong. On his arrival at the last-named place, the mail from the north came in, bringing the news of the capture of the Taku forts. As, “however, no […]
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Article"Romances mises en musique par S[a] M[ajesté] L[a] R[eine] H[ortense]": a reader’s note
Romances mises en musique par S[a] M[ajesté] L[a] R[eine] H[ortense] This collection received a very small print run as it was only given to close friends and relatives as a mark of Hortense's friendship and respect. Daughter of Josephine de Beauharnais and schooled at the institution run by Mme Campan, Hortense was a highly gifted […]
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ArticleSummer Selection 2010
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ArticleMarengo Museum: opening weekend, 12 – 13 June, 2010
Introduction After ten years of planning, Saturday 12 June saw the official opening of the Marengo Museum in the Villa Delavo, a country house built near the battlefield of Marengo on the outskirts of Alessandria, the key strategic town and citadel in the plains of Piedmont (Italy). Marengo Museum
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Article"An exposition of some of the transactions, that have taken place at St-Helena, since the appointment of Sir Hudson Lowe as governor of that island ; in answer to an anonymous pamphlet entitled "Facts illustrative of the treatment of Napoleon Bonaparte", & corroborated by various official documents, correspondence": a reader’s note
A reader’s note This document is Dr Barry O'Meara's first account following his dismissal from St Helena. O'Meara's relationship with Hudson Lowe, the British governor on the island, had become extremely strained and had degenerated to such an extent that the latter finally ordered his departure on 25 July, 1818.The publication quickly became popular with […]
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ArticleBook review: All for the King’s Shilling, The British Soldier Under Wellington, 1808-1814
The expression “scum of the earth” uttered by Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, has become etched in history as a great commander’s miserable opinion of his men. In a letter to Henry, Third Earl Bathurst, from Huarte Spain, on 2 July, 1813, Wellington wrote, “we have in the service the scum of the Earth as […]
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ArticleBook review: On Wellington: A Critique of Waterloo
While Carl von Clausewitz's classic work On War has been in print in its original German from its first edition in 1932 to its nineteenth, from the same Berlin publisher, in 1980, and in four different English translations, the same cannot be said of Clausewitz's critique of the allied performance at the Battle of Waterloo. […]
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ArticleBook review: The Waterloo Archive, volume I: British Sources
Although it is quite possible that more has been written on Waterloo than any other battle in history, eminent Napoleonic era historians such as Gareth Glover and Andrew Uffindel insist that facts and personalities involved in the battle and Napoleon's campaign of 1815 still cry out for reconsideration. For example, the majority of historians believe […]
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ArticleBook review: The Battle of the Berezina, Napoleon’s Great Escape
Almost two hundred years after the crossing of the Berezina River by the remnants of Napoleon's Grande Armée, a new book written by Alexander Mikaberidze, assistant professor at history at Louisiana State University at Shreveport and author of The Battle of Borodino, comes to remind us of the battle for the bridgehead, the memory of […]
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ArticleAlbert Prince Consort’s speech given at a banquet at the Mansion House on 21 March, 1849This speech forms part of the Close-up on the great British and French universal exhibitions during the Second Empire