Reflections on A Journey to St Helena
Reflections on St Helena, Napoleon's exile, and English attitudes towards Napoleon.
Monday, 30 March 2015
Anthony Burgess and Napoleon
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According to Anthony Burgess's not always reliable autobiography, at his birth his father breathed beer on him and said He may be ...
Friday, 20 March 2015
Castlereagh and the Defeat of Napoleon
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Viscount Castlereagh: "the prim smirking aspect of a haberdasher" - Hazlitt With a reputation for being cold and calculatin...
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Sunday, 22 February 2015
Napoleon On Elba: "He is quite forgotten -- as much as if he never existed."
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Napoleon Bonaparte leaving Elba, 26 February 1815. Joseph Beaume 1836 Almost 200 years ago, on 26th February 1815, Napoleon and his s...
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Thursday, 1 January 2015
July 1879, A Great Victorian Spectacle: The Funeral of the Prince Imperial
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Prince Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte (1856-1879) Little is now remembered of Napoleon IV, but his premature death rocke...
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Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Images of Napoleon
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Finding Napoleon Face to Face from Margaret Rodenberg on Vimeo . Margaret Rodenberg and her husband Bert have put together this coll...
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